On 17 July 2017 at 14:45, Nathaniel Smith <njs@pobox.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 17, 2017 at 6:42 AM, Daniel Holth <dholth@gmail.com> wrote:
>> A minor detail for pip strategy option #2 is that sdists do not have to have
>> PKG-INFO.
>
> ...should they be required to have PKG-INFO? This seems like a
> relevant question regardless of whether pip goes with "strategy option
> #2" :-).

A note of caution here - this way lies (at least some level) of
defining an official sdist format. I'm not against that (specifically,
I'd be happy if we did that, just formalising what setuptools
currently does in some usable form, and leave any sort of "sdist 2.0"
debate for when we've all got our breath back after this discussion)
but I'll note that we went round this loop very early on here (which
resulted in the PEP being written in terms of "source trees") so we
need to be careful not to go back over old ground.