Hi, On behalf of the Distutils-SIG, I would like to propose to addition of PEP 345 (once and *if* PEP 386 is accepted).
It's the metadata v1.2: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0345/ PEP 345 was initiated a while ago by Richard Jones, and reworked since then together with PEP 386, at Pycon last year and in Distutils-SIG. The major enhancements are: - being able to express dependencies on other *distributions* names, rather than packages names or modules names. This enhancement comes from Setuptools and has been used successfully for years by the community. - being able to express some fields which values are specific to some platforms. For example, being able to define "pywin32" as a dependency *only* on win32. This enhancement will allow any tool to query PyPI and to get the metadata for a particular execution context, without having to download, build, or install the project itself. - being able to provide a list of browsable URLs for the project, like a bug tracker, a repository etc, in addition to the home url. This will allow UIs like PyPI to display a list of URLs for a project. A side-effect will be that a project maintainer will be able to drive its end users to the right places when they need to find detailed documentation or provide some feedback. This enhancement was driven by the discussions about the rating/comment system at PyPI on catalog-sig. We believe that having PEP 386 and PEP 345 accepted will be a major improvement for the Python packaging eco-system. The next PEP in the series we are working on is PEP 376. As a side note, I would really like to see them (hopefully) accepted before the first beta of Python 2.7 so we can add these features in 2.7/3.2 and start to work on third-party tools (Distribute, Pip, a standalone version of Distutils for 2.6/2.5, etc..) to get ready to support them by the time 2.7 final is out. Regards Tarek -- Tarek Ziadé | http://ziade.org _______________________________________________ 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
