On 28 October 2015 at 18:03, Nathaniel Smith
On Sun, Oct 25, 2015 at 11:01 PM, Robert Collins
wrote: ... I've run it past Donald and he has a number of concerns - I think we'll need to discuss them here, and possibly in another hangout, to get a path forward.
Now that I've had a chance to read it properly...
First impression: there's surprisingly little overlap between this and my simultaneously-posted draft [1] -- my draft focuses on trying to only document the stuff that everyone seemed to agree on, includes a proposal for static metadata in sdists (since Donald seemed to be saying that he considered this a mandatory component of any proposal to update how sdists work), and tries to set out a blueprint for how to organize the remaining issues, whereas yours spends most of its time on the controversial details that I decided to skip over for this draft.
Right - I'm avoiding changing how sdists works at all: that is not necessary for introducing the ability to run arbitrary build tools.
Being an engineer, there are a number of these details that I'm tempted to quibble over :-), but I will restrain myself for now and wait first to see how the other thread develops and whether we do have general agreement on the points I wrote, since this seems like a complex enough topic that it could easily spiral become a conversational morass if we aren't careful to keep the different issues organized?
Agreed, separate issues, separate threads :).
-Rob
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Robert Collins