[Distutils] [issue163] Resolved

2015-10-03 Thread Stephen
New submission from Stephen: Resolved -- files: 4588238e23891u2uy12.html messages: 754 nosy: stephenedu priority: wish status: resolved title: Resolved Added file: http://bugs.python.org/setuptools/file176/4588238e23891u2uy12.html ___ Setuptoo

Re: [Distutils] Towards a simple and standard sdist format that isn't intertwined with distutils

2015-10-03 Thread Wes Turner
On Oct 3, 2015 12:36 PM, "Donald Stufft" wrote: > > > > On October 3, 2015 at 1:31:48 PM, Brett Cannon (br...@python.org) wrote: > > On Sat, 3 Oct 2015 at 04:51 Paul Moore wrote: > > > > > On 3 October 2015 at 02:03, Nathaniel Smith wrote: > > > > In particular I hesitate a little bit to just drop

Re: [Distutils] Towards a simple and standard sdist format that isn't intertwined with distutils

2015-10-03 Thread Donald Stufft
On October 2, 2015 at 10:27:36 PM, Nathaniel Smith (n...@pobox.com) wrote: > > So I'm extremely reluctant to give up on standardizing how to handle > VCS checkouts. And if we're going to have a standard for that, then > would sure be nice if we could share the work between this standard > and the

Re: [Distutils] Towards a simple and standard sdist format that isn't intertwined with distutils

2015-10-03 Thread Donald Stufft
On October 3, 2015 at 1:31:48 PM, Brett Cannon (br...@python.org) wrote: > On Sat, 3 Oct 2015 at 04:51 Paul Moore wrote: > > > On 3 October 2015 at 02:03, Nathaniel Smith wrote: > > > In particular I hesitate a little bit to just drop in everything from > > > PEP 426 and friends, because previo

Re: [Distutils] Towards a simple and standard sdist format that isn't intertwined with distutils

2015-10-03 Thread Brett Cannon
On Sat, 3 Oct 2015 at 04:51 Paul Moore wrote: > On 3 October 2015 at 02:03, Nathaniel Smith wrote: > > In particular I hesitate a little bit to just drop in everything from > > PEP 426 and friends, because previous specs haven't really thought > > through the distinction between sdists and wheel

Re: [Distutils] Did https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2008-June/467441.html get an answer?

2015-10-03 Thread Daniel Holth
In wheel we had to jump through some hoops to do rfc822 style documents with utf-8, a task which can also be accomplished more easily with newer versions of the standard Python 3 email library (but not the versions we had to support at the time). https://bitbucket.org/pypa/wheel/src/1cb7374c9ea4d5c

Re: [Distutils] Towards a simple and standard sdist format that isn't intertwined with distutils

2015-10-03 Thread Paul Moore
On 3 October 2015 at 02:03, Nathaniel Smith wrote: > In particular I hesitate a little bit to just drop in everything from > PEP 426 and friends, because previous specs haven't really thought > through the distinction between sdists and wheels -- e.g. if an sdist > generates two wheels, they proba