On Wed, 19 Sep 2018 at 10:54, Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com> wrote: > Given that, and assuming Vinay is amenable to the idea, it would be > nice to revisit the concept of the two layer architecture, with > packaging as the lower level minimalist strictly standards compliant > layer, and distlib as the higher level general purpose toolkit that > brings together various other libraries (including packaging itself) > under a more comprehensive API.
I'd certainly be OK with delegating more of the "common activities" to distlib. But it's a *long* way from being simple to do so, and pip would need to take a lot of care to ensure that doing so didn't result in behavioural differences. Also, we'd need to be careful of dumping too much on distlib without making the sustainability problem even worse - at the moment, as far as I know, Vinay is the sole distlib developer. Paul -- Distutils-SIG mailing list -- distutils-sig@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to distutils-sig-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mm3/mailman3/lists/distutils-sig.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/mm3/archives/list/distutils-sig@python.org/message/V5JQID7LDAIDZT2FCSIDEEIHS6FFXWAW/
