Martin, As an application developer, I really stand with Tarek here.
On Wed, 23 Dec 2009 20:07:30 +0100, Tarek Ziadé <ziade.ta...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2009/12/23 "Martin v. Löwis" <mar...@v.loewis.de>: >>> I think we want something stronger than that since they were not really >>> used by >>> the community and removed and replaced by something better. Using them >>> should raise a warning so developers abandon them, so it would be >>> "don't use 1.1 anymore" Yes. But that is a software warning message to be implemented within the installation software. The important thing is what is in the metadata. > I am just describing the needs and the end user PoV with the reference > implementation that happens to be used by *all* tools out there. That's good. That's what we need right now. > So that will happen in the code of course, but we need the PEP to state > clearly > wether metadata 1.0 and 1.1 should be dropped by implementations or not. +1 >> It would be also incompatible with existing consumers that expect >> a Python package to have an earlier version of the metadata. >> Dropping 1.0 may be fine though - but again, this is out of scope >> here. That's a software implementation issue. Not a metadata issue. > I don't understand why you are saying this is out of scope. Shouldn't we > state clearly in the PEP that 1.0 and 1.1 should not be used in the future I agree with you Tarek. Whilst we can suggest that the implementation be done in certain ways. The PEP in it's current form seems good enough an I am hoping it will go through soon. Three more years of deliberation and niggling on this PEP will have more of an adverse affect than a positive effect. It was started in 2005 and that seems like a long time to hold things up. There's always time for a 1.3 version in two years time if there is an unstoppable problem here - but I can't see any. As an application developer, I have to side with Tarek. Lets get this finalised. Thank you David _______________________________________________ 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
