On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 8:36 PM, Donald Stufft <donald@stufft.io> wrote:
On Jul 18, 2013, at 8:33 PM, Daniel Holth <dholth@gmail.com> wrote:
We might as well allow happy setuptools users to continue using setuptools. I don't care about making a pkg_resources console_scripts handler that does the same thing because we can just use the existing one. The more important contribution is to provide an alternative for people who are not happy setuptools users.
I generally agree with this :) I just think that we need to close the loop on our current efforts before adding more things into the fray. The only major change to the eco system we've made so far that has actually *shipped* to end users is the distribute/setuptools merge and that's causing a lot of pain to people.
Soon we'll at least have a pip version with prelim wheel support but I don't even know if it supports metadata 2.0 at all or not yet? I think there's a pre-release of wheel that does though?
bdist_wheel will produce json metadata that generally conforms to the current PEP but no consumer takes advantage of it just yet. I added the "generator" key to the metadata so it would be easy to throw out outdated or buggy json metadata.