[Distutils] [Python-Dev] distlib updated with resources API

[Daniel Holth]

On Sun, Sep 30, 2012 at 8:59 AM, David Cournapeau <cournape at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 30, 2012 at 6:03 AM, Donald Stufft <donald.stufft at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I have some unpublished work I should publish.
>>
>> Part of the point with what i'm trying to do is to define a standard for
>> what is inside
>> a package, but not really for how you take a particular set of files and
>> turn it into
>> that. So if you want to edit yaml you can have a yaml file and have a
>> package
>> creation tool that turns that yaml into the standard json that gets added to
>> the
>> package. The same can be said for a python file or a setup.cfg or whatever.
>> Ideally
>> the roles of package creation, building, and installation should be able to
>> be completely
>> separate. So my goal is to facilitate that by creating a standard way to
>> describe
>> all the data about a distribution, including extensible data in a way that
>> any tool
>> can serialize or deserialize it losslessly.
>
> Note that all this work has already been done in Bento.

I am a huge fan of Bento. I will be converting my packages to use it
as soon as is practical.

I would like to add the "where are things installed.py" generation to
the wheel standard somehow.