Re: [Distutils] PEP 517 again

2017-09-03 Thread Nathaniel Smith
On Sun, Sep 3, 2017 at 11:14 AM, xoviat wrote: > Just an update for everyone here: > > 1. We're currently waiting on the implementation of the 'dist_info" command > in the wheel project. > 2. Once that is done we can switch pip over to reading dist-info rather than > egg_info. > 3. Then we can mov

Re: [Distutils] PEP 517 again

2017-09-03 Thread cyanrave
Great discussions on this PEP over the proposal, here and in the archives. I've just now gotten plugged in to the distutils distro, at a seemingly perfect time... somewhat new to Python packaging and still learning. Many of the issues observed by users in the mail chain are reasons why we had m

Re: [Distutils] PEP 517 again

2017-09-03 Thread xoviat
Just an update for everyone here: 1. We're currently waiting on the implementation of the 'dist_info" command in the wheel project. 2. Once that is done we can switch pip over to reading dist-info rather than egg_info. 3. Then we can move the backend over to setuptools. Because Jacob has a much mo

Re: [Distutils] PEP 541

2017-09-03 Thread xoviat
I would actually like to transfer the "pywin32" project to Paul, Glyph, myself and friends because nothing has been uploaded there, but I thought it wasn't possible. Maybe it is? 2017-09-02 6:05 GMT-05:00 nassim daoud : > Hello, > > There is a friend of mine wondering, if abandoned PyPI projects