On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 7:04 AM, Ronald Oussoren <ronaldousso...@mac.com> wrote:
>
> On 18 Oct, 2012, at 19:29, Daniel Holth <dho...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I'd like to submit the Wheel PEPs 425 (filename metadata), 426
>> (Metadata 1.3), and 427 (wheel itself) for acceptance. The format has
>> been stable since May and we are preparing a patch to support it in
>> pip, but we need to earn consensus before including it in the most
>> widely used installer.
>
> PEP 425:
>
> * "The version is py_version_nodot. CPython gets away with no dot, but if one
> is needed the underscore _ is used instead"
>
> I don't particularly like replacing dots by underscores. That needed
> because you use the dot character in compressed tag sets, but why not use a
> comma to separate items in the compressed tag set?
> * "The platform tag is simply distutils.util.get_platform() with all hyphens
> - and periods . replaced with underscore _."
>
> Why the replacement? The need for replacement could be avoided by using a
> different separator between elements of a tag (for example "~" or "+"), and
> furthermore the platform tag is at a know
> location, and hence the use of hyphens in the platform tag is harmless
> (use "python_tag, abi_tag, platform_tag = tag.split('-', 2)" to split the tag
> into its elements.
This is based on the longstanding convention of folding - and _
(hyphen and underscore) in built distribution filenames and using - to
separate parts.
> * "compressed tag sets"
>
> Using '"," instead of "." to separate elements of the tag set takes away
> the need to replace dots in tag elements, and seems more natural to me (you'd
> also use comma to separate the elements
> when you write them down in prose or python code.
I kindof like the ,
The + might transform into a space in URLs?
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