On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 5:30 PM, Daniel Holth <dho...@gmail.com> wrote: > My desire is to invent the useful "wheel" binary package format in a > reasonable and limited amount of time by making changes to Metadata 1.2 and > implementing the new metadata format and wheel in distribute and pip. Help > me out by allowing useless but un-changed fields to remain in this version > of the PEP. I am done with the PEP and submit that it is not worse than its > predecessor.
You could just mark those fields as deprecated and that they should not be used to delete packages or block packages from installation. Justification: nobody has managed to make them work in an automated tool yet, and their use in same is controversial, so they are downgraded to human-informational only. Please, let's not have yet *another* metadata spec that advertises these attractive nuisance[1] fields. I do not want us to be having this same conversation AGAIN the next time any metadata changes are being considered. We've already had it too many times already. PEPs are supposed to summarize these discussions for that very reason. --- [1] For non-native speakers, an attractive nuisance is a dangerous thing that entices unsuspecting persons to play with it; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attractive_nuisance_doctrine has more details. _______________________________________________ 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
