On Jun 30, 2013, at 4:47 PM, Vinay Sajip <vinay_sajip@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
Donald Stufft <donald <at> stufft.io> writes:
I'm not worried about the speed or performance, I'm worried about how annoying it is to write a tool that processes it.
Quite possibly I misunderstood the thrust of your argument, but the point of distlib is to take care of those kinds of low-level details, rather than having multiple packaging tools reimplement that processing you refer to. Of course people are free to not use distlib, but if I'm wasting my time then it would be nice if people would tell me :-)
Regards,
Vinay Sajip
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I'm not knocking the work you've done on distlib at all :) I just don't think it's existence means we shouldn't worry about the user friendliness of the API if someone doesn't use it. Maybe you think a single list is more user-friendly. That's fine for you to think that, we can agree to disagree on that :) ----------------- Donald Stufft PGP: 0x6E3CBCE93372DCFA // 7C6B 7C5D 5E2B 6356 A926 F04F 6E3C BCE9 3372 DCFA