
Hi Jimmy, and welcome, On Mon, Oct 08, 2018 at 09:10:40AM +0200, Jimmy Girardet wrote:
Hi,
I don't know if this was already debated but I don't know how to search in the whole archive of the list.
For now the adoption of pyproject.toml file is more difficult because toml is not in the standard library.
It is true that using third-party libraries is more difficult than using the std lib. That alone is not a reason to add a library to the std lib.
Each tool which wants to use pyproject.toml has to add a toml lib as a conditional or hard dependency.
Since toml is now the standard configuration file format,
It is? Did I miss the memo? Because I've never even heard of TOML before this very moment. Google Trends doesn't really support your assertion that TOML has become "the standard" for config files: # compare TOML, JSON and YAML https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=%2Fg%2F11c5zwr35t,%2Fm%2F05cntt,%... although it is trending upwards: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=%2Fg%2F11c5zwr35t
it's strange the python does not support it in the stdlib lije it would have been strange to not have the configparser module.
We don't even ship a YAML library, and that seems to be far more popular than TOML. On the other hand, we do ship a plist library.
I know it's complicated to add more and more thing to the stdlib but I really think it is necessary for python packaging being more consistent.
Maybe we could thought to a readonly lib to limit the added code.
What is a readonly lib? -- Steve