On Dec 05, 2012, at 04:10 PM, PJ Eby wrote: >While it's certainly desirable to not invent wheels, it's important to >understand that the Python community does not work the same way as a >Linux distribution. We are not a single organization shipping a >fully-functional and configured machine, we are hundreds of individual >authors shipping our own stuff. Conflict resolution and package >replacement (and even deciding what it is that things "provide" or >"require") are primarily *human* processes, not technical ones. >Relationship and support "contracts", IOW, rather than software >contracts. > >That's why, in the distro world, a package manager can use simple >fields to carry out the will of the human organization that made those >support and compatibility decisions. For Python, the situation is a >bit more complicated, which is why clear thinking is needed. Simply >copying fields blindly from other packaging systems just isn't going >to cut it.
+1 >Now, if the will of the community is to turn PyPI into a distro-style >repository, that's fine... Please no! -1 :) -Barry _______________________________________________ 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
