<p dir="ltr">Just call it Steve</p>
<br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Wed, May 4, 2016, 16:25 Robert Collins <<a href="mailto:robertc@robertcollins.net">robertc@robertcollins.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On 4 May 2016 at 19:39, Nick Coghlan <<a href="mailto:ncoghlan@gmail.com" target="_blank">ncoghlan@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> On 4 May 2016 at 16:03, Robert Collins <<a href="mailto:robertc@robertcollins.net" target="_blank">robertc@robertcollins.net</a>> wrote:<br>
>> The edits I'd expect to make if the conclusions I suggested in<br>
>> <a href="https://mail.python.org/pipermail/distutils-sig/2016-March/028437.html" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://mail.python.org/pipermail/distutils-sig/2016-March/028437.html</a><br>
>> are adopted are:<br>
>><br>
>> - change to a Python API<br>
>> - BFDL call on the file format and name<br>
>><br>
>> There is no need to issue a new sdist thing, because sdists today are<br>
>> *already* documented across PEPs 241, 314 and 345.<br>
><br>
> I already +1'ed using a Python API, but on the file name & format<br>
> side, we have the following candidates and prior art floating around:<br>
><br>
> pypa.json in PEP 516<br>
> pypackage.json in PEP 517<br>
> pydist.json in PEP 426<br>
> METADATA (Key: Value) in sdists and wheels<br>
> WHEEL (Key: Value) in wheels<br>
><br>
> My impression is that we're generally agreed on wanting to move from<br>
> Key:Value to JSON as the baseline for interoperability formats, so my<br>
> suggestion is to use the name "pybuild.json".<br>
><br>
> The problem I have with pypa/pypackage/pydist is that they're all too<br>
> broad - we're moving towards an explicitly multi-stage pipeline (tree<br>
> -> sdist -> wheel -> installed) and additional metadata gets added at<br>
> each step. The "pybuild.json" metadata specifically covers how to get<br>
> from a source tree or sdist to a built wheel file, so I think it makes<br>
> sense to use a name that reflects that.<br>
<br>
I don't think we have anything resembling consensus on that pipeline idea.<br>
<br>
pybuild.json would be fine as a name though :).<br>
<br>
-Rob<br>
<br>
<br>
--<br>
Robert Collins <<a href="mailto:rbtcollins@hpe.com" target="_blank">rbtcollins@hpe.com</a>><br>
Distinguished Technologist<br>
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