On 23.08.2016 18:46, Donald Stufft wrote: > Since it seemed like there was enough here for a proper PEP I went ahead and > write one up, which is now PEP 527. The tl;dr of it is that: > > * Everything but sdist, bdist_wheel, and bdist_egg get deprecated.
-1 on removing bdist_wininst and bdist_msi. If PyPI is supposed to retain the status of the main website to go search for Python package downloads, it needs to be able to provide ways of hosting all distribution types which are supported by distutils, including ones which target platform configuration management system such as the Windows one. The number of downloads is really irrelevant for this kind of argument. Since the PEP proposes to keep the existing uploads around, I also don't follow the argument of reduced maintenance. PyPI will still have to host and support downloading those file types. To me, all this sounds a lot like eventually turning PyPI into a pip package index, which no longer serves the original intent of a Python package index. I think that's taking a wrong turn in the development of such an index. IMO, we should aim to reunite separate indexes such as the one used for conda or the win32 index maintained by Christoph Golke back into PyPI, not create even more separation by removing platform specific formats. > * The only allowed extension for sdist is ``.tar.gz``. Strong -1 on this part. .tar.gz may be a good choice for Unix, but it definitely isn't for Windows. Even for Unix, .zip files have the advantage of not messing up file ownerships and permissions. > * Phased in Deprecation. > > I've included the text below, or you can see it online at > https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0527/ once the PEP website is updated. -- Marc-Andre Lemburg eGenix.com Professional Python Services directly from the Experts (#1, Aug 23 2016) >>> Python Projects, Coaching and Consulting ... http://www.egenix.com/ >>> Python Database Interfaces ... http://products.egenix.com/ >>> Plone/Zope Database Interfaces ... http://zope.egenix.com/ ________________________________________________________________________ ::: We implement business ideas - efficiently in both time and costs ::: eGenix.com Software, Skills and Services GmbH Pastor-Loeh-Str.48 D-40764 Langenfeld, Germany. CEO Dipl.-Math. Marc-Andre Lemburg Registered at Amtsgericht Duesseldorf: HRB 46611 http://www.egenix.com/company/contact/ http://www.malemburg.com/ _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
