On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 9:18 AM, Paul Moore<p.f.mo...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2009/7/9 Eric Smith <e...@trueblade.com>: >> P.J. Eby wrote: >>>> >>>> ISTM that the problem that it solves is uninstall in the absence of >>>> the original installer. >>> >>> Or uninstall where the installer is "setup.py install", actually. >> >> I think we need to move away from "setup.py install". It's the antithesis of >> static metadata. setup.py needs to go away. >> >> If we have a static metadata file called, say "setup.info", then I'd like to >> see: >> "bdist_rpm setup.info" produce a .rpm >> "bdist_msi setup.info" produce a .msi >> "bdist_deb setup.info" produce a .deb >> "bdist_egg setup.info" produce a .egg >> and so on. >> >> There might be a library (and I call dibs on the name "distlib" :) that >> provides support routines to parse setup.info, but there's no framework >> involved. And no need for a plugin system. > > +1. Now who's going to design & write it?
Some work has been started on that at the summit too on that, under the "static metadata" name. (see the wiki) Can we move that discussion to distutils-SIG and focus on PEP 376 in this thread ? I am scared to see the discussion going in too many directions, Regards Tarek _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
