Re: [Distutils] Deferring metadata hooks

2014-03-02 Thread Oscar Benjamin
On 2 March 2014 07:25, Nick Coghlan ncogh...@gmail.com wrote: I've just posted updated versions of PEP 426 and 459 that defer the metadata hooks feature. The design and behaviour of that extension is still way too speculative for me to approve in its current form, but I also don't want to

Re: [Distutils] Deferring metadata hooks

2014-03-02 Thread Nick Coghlan
On 3 Mar 2014 04:34, Oscar Benjamin oscar.j.benja...@gmail.com wrote: On 2 March 2014 07:25, Nick Coghlan ncogh...@gmail.com wrote: I've just posted updated versions of PEP 426 and 459 that defer the metadata hooks feature. The design and behaviour of that extension is still way too

Re: [Distutils] Deferring metadata hooks

2014-03-02 Thread Oscar Benjamin
On 2 March 2014 21:05, Nick Coghlan ncogh...@gmail.com wrote: I think this approach may also encourage a design where projects do something sensible *by default* (e.g. NumPy defaulting to SSE2) and then use the (not yet defined) post-installation hooks to potentially *change away* from

[Distutils] Deferring metadata hooks

2014-03-01 Thread Nick Coghlan
I've just posted updated versions of PEP 426 and 459 that defer the metadata hooks feature. The design and behaviour of that extension is still way too speculative for me to approve in its current form, but I also don't want to hold up the rest of the changes in metadata 2.0 while we thrash out