[Distutils] How to handle launcher script importability?

[Paul Moore]

On 21 August 2013 09:56, Donald Stufft <donald at stufft.io> wrote:

> > ISTM distlib is not yet that reference library - it's just another
> library
> > for most people, judging from the low level of feedback I've had overall.
>
> That's totally fine. We just need to be clear that it's not the reference
> library and is instead one implementation.


Yep, there's certainly been a perception that distlib is the reference
implementation. Apologies if I perpetuated that.

We do have a slightly different issue then, in that there *isn't* a
reference implementation for a lot of this stuff... (I guess wheel counts
as the reference implementation for wheel, doh, so that part's covered).
People are starting to write code to use these new facilities, so having an
actual reference implementation is important (IMO, that's one area where
packaging/distutils2 got in a mess, so I'm concerned we don't fall into the
same trap). We need people using the new stuff to help us identify
potential issues.

Paul

PS Apologies if I appear to be a little irritable on this subject. I have a
series of scripts that maintain a local cache of wheels for various
projects. I'm starting to hit cases where the wheels aren't usable because
of subtle differences in how the spec's being implemented, and it feels
like I'm trying to hit a moving target, which is what I thought having the
wheel 1.0 PEP accepted was designed to avoid.
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