<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">We've spent a huge amount of effort on reaching the point where pretty<br>
much everything *can* be made pip installable. Heck, *PyQt5*, which is<br>
my personal benchmark for a probably-totally-unpackageable package,<br>
announced last week that they now have binary wheels on pypi for all<br>
of Win/Mac/Linux:<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>that's thanks to binary wheels being a simple archive -- by definition, if you can build and install it *somehow* you can make a binary wheel out of it -- which is a great thing -- so nice to have wheel completely independent of the build system.</div><div><br></div><div>isn't that where we are trying to go -- have pip be independent of the build system?</div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">> If the BDFL delegate makes a call - fine. I read<br>
> Nick's earlier email in the thread as such a thing TBH :).<br>
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</span>Oh sure, I think everyone agrees that the file format choice is not a<br>
make-or-break decision </blockquote><div><br></div><div>Am I the only one that thinks we're conflating two things here? choice of file format is separate from "use setup.cfg" -- I think we should use something NEW -- rather than try to patch on top of existing setup.cfg files -- that way we're free to change the rules, and no one (and no tools) will be confused about what version of what system is in play.</div><div><br></div><div>In short -- we should do something new, not just extend setup.cfg, and not because we want a new file format.</div><div><br></div><div>-CHB</div><div><br></div></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><br>Christopher Barker, Ph.D.<br>Oceanographer<br><br>Emergency Response Division<br>NOAA/NOS/OR&R (206) 526-6959 voice<br>7600 Sand Point Way NE (206) 526-6329 fax<br>Seattle, WA 98115 (206) 526-6317 main reception<br><br><a href="mailto:Chris.Barker@noaa.gov" target="_blank">Chris.Barker@noaa.gov</a></div>
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