[Distutils] Alternate static metadata PEP submission...

[Tarek Ziadé]

On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 12:30 PM, Floris Bruynooghe
<floris.bruynooghe at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 02:18:11AM -0400, David Lyon wrote:
>> This PEP proposes a change to the way that applications
>> and libraries are installed in python, by using a new
>> file called setup.info rather than setup.py. To hold
>> installation information.
>
> This seems to propose a whole build system, while PEP390 only aims for
> static metadata.  Not restricting it to static metadata makes the
> domain a lot wider and complicated as shown by countless previous
> discussions on this list (several of these things have been outlined
> before).  Since the problem domain is so huge it will take a very long
> time to come up with a stable version that addresses all issues
> adequately, something which this PEP sidesteps solving the problem it
> targets in a sensible and contained way.
>
> It certainly is a laudable goal to come up with such a build system
> but I don't think it can be seen as *instead of* the metatdata PEP.
> IMHO such a system should be using the static metadata from whatever
> PEP 390 will become.

If wanted, I can go ahead I create a new PEP for David's proposal. And
David can work it out
using PEP 390 references maybe

let me know

Tarek