[Catalog-sig] New proposal, with PEP

[Richard Jones]

On Sun, 27 Oct 2002 7:49 pm, Martin v. Loewis wrote:
> Richard Jones <rjones@ekit-inc.com> writes:
> > 2. neither of the above are hosted at python.org, and hence don't
> > have any of the legitemacy that that hosting would bring, and
>
> In my eyes, Freshmeat has enough legitemacy on its own.

Sure, but not in my eyes. And we're not alone in our respective opinions.


> > > That will be difficult; you need to propose it on python-dev.
> >
> > Hence the PEP. I _think_ I'm following correct procedure here...
>
> Sure. At some point, you'd need to submit it to the PEP editor, see
> PEP 1.

Sure, I just wanted to get some feedback on the proposal before going through 
the formal process.


> > That's a problem, yes. I'm not sure what the solution would
> > be. Older packages run with the new code wouldn't have a
> > problem. Newer packages run with older code will break on the
> > "trove" keyword argument to setup(). I'm not sure what the solution
> > would be.
>
> Unless you can find a hack (like putting data into a separate file for
> the register command to find them there), I think there is no
> solution. Wait until Python 2.4 or 2.5 for users to start using the
> feature (i.e. when they are willing to give up compatibility with
> older Python releases, for other reasons).

So that would imply building the keyword in now and not advertising it?


    Richard