[Distutils] PEP 426 updated (with more than you ever wanted to know about version schemes)

Daniel Holth dholth at gmail.com
Tue Feb 12 16:55:46 CET 2013


On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 10:04 AM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> On 13 Feb 2013 00:55, "Ronald Oussoren" <ronaldoussoren at mac.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > On 12 Feb, 2013, at 14:46, Daniel Holth <dholth at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > I still think it makes more sense to just download distribute and
> wheel when you want to build one, but to each his own... if you need to
> create packages for pypi without being able to install things from it,
> knock yourself out.
> >
> > Why the hostility? It makes sense to have basic support in the stdlib.
>
> I'm playing a much longer game than Daniel - when you're thinking in terms
> of the next few months, then the PEPs are only significant because the pip
> folks (sensibly, IMO) have made that a condition of merging wheel support
> (at which point people will naturally start using them more, since they
> won't have to seek them out, pip will cache the built wheels automatically)
>
> Core support only starts to matter once you're thinking in terms of
> *years*, and the way beginners will encounter Python's distribution
> ecosystem in 3.4+ :)
>
+1 although I need to finish the PEP before then, the core support should
take years. This gives the community time to discover a good system.
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