[Distutils] RFC: Binary Distribution Format for distutils2/packaging
Carl Meyer
carl at oddbird.net
Wed Mar 14 03:50:23 CET 2012
On 03/13/2012 05:18 PM, Jim Fulton wrote:
[snip]
> 1) setuptools eggs
>
> - Have to support legacy meta-data format
>
> 2) bdist
>
> - Need to add python version for:
> - compatibility info
> - also provides delimeter between version # and platform
> - Need to update setuptools/distribute to handle (or ignore) them.
>
> 3) New egg-like format "pbd"
>
> - Arrange suffix so ignored by setuptools/distribute
> - new-style meta data
> - would be a zip file
>
> - Essentially, .egg format with new-style meta data and different
> suffix.
>
> Option 3) looks the best to us, so we propose:
>
> - Introduce a new binary distribution format with a ".pbd" suffix
> and an egg-like structure.
>
> An example file name:
>
> ZODB3-3.10.0b1-py2.6-macosx-10.4-x86_64.pbd
>
> - Deprecate bdist format.
>
> D2/p will not support generation or installation of bdist
> distributions.
In terms of distribution format, this sounds great; I think a clean
break and new format that existing systems will just naturally ignore is
the way to go.
Your message doesn't address the on-disk installed format. I hope that
the installed format (at least the d2/p default) will be consistent with
PEP 376 (unzipped and "flat"), not an egg-style importable zip file
relying on its own dedicated entry in a pth file.
Carl
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