[Distutils] RFC: Binary Distribution Format for distutils2/packaging

[Marius Gedminas]

On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 07:40:36AM -0400, Jim Fulton wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 7:29 PM, Paul Moore <p.f.moore at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 14 March 2012 19:04, Tarek Ziadé <tarek at ziade.org> wrote:
> >>> Please can we have a new format that only has a Python version in the
> >>> filename if it matters?
> >>
> >> isn't that supposed to be the source release ?
> >
> > Yes, basically - at least as far as I understand.
> >
> >> Why would someone create a binary release when
> >> it's pure Python ?
> >
> > I wish I knew. But people do - mostly egg format files. But I think
> > this is partly because of the confusion between
> > egg-as-distribution-format vs egg-as-directly-usable-object that PJE
> > alludes to in his emails.
> 
> I sometimes create platform-independent eggs to indicate a Python-version
> dependency.  Until d2/p, there was no other way to indicate dependence
> on a particular Python version.

Except for Trove classifiers, of course:

    'Programming Language :: Python',
    'Programming Language :: Python :: 2',
    'Programming Language :: Python :: 2.4',
    'Programming Language :: Python :: 2.5',
    'Programming Language :: Python :: 2.6',
    'Programming Language :: Python :: 2.7',
    'Programming Language :: Python :: 3',
    'Programming Language :: Python :: 3.1',
    'Programming Language :: Python :: 3.2',

Or do I misunderstand your requirements?

Marius Gedminas
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