[Distutils] Builders vs Installers
Erik Bray
erik.m.bray at gmail.com
Tue Mar 26 23:47:24 CET 2013
On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 5:21 PM, Daniel Holth <dholth at gmail.com> wrote:
> I want to poke myself in the eye every time I have to edit json by hand.
> Especially the description field.
I'm with you on that--I much prefer YAML (which is a superset of
JSON!) but we don't even have that in the stdlib and it's not worth
bikeshedding over to me.
> On Mar 26, 2013 5:17 PM, "Donald Stufft" <donald at stufft.io> wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Mar 26, 2013, at 5:12 PM, Daniel Holth <dholth at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > I am -1 on renaming anything unless it solves a technical problem.
>> > Forever after we will have to explain "well, it used to be called X,
>> > now it's called Y..."
>> >
>> > On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 5:01 PM, Erik Bray <erik.m.bray at gmail.com>
>> > wrote:
>> >> On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 4:08 PM, PJ Eby <pje at telecommunity.com> wrote:
>> >>> On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 3:03 PM, Daniel Holth <dholth at gmail.com>
>> >>> wrote:
>> >>>> I think PKG-INFO is a highly human-editable format.
>> >>>
>> >>> That doesn't mean you necessarily want to edit it yourself; notably,
>> >>> there will likely be some redundancy between the description in the
>> >>> file and other files like the README.
>> >>>
>> >>> Also, today one of the key use cases people have for custom code in
>> >>> setup.py is to pull the package version from a __version__ attribute
>> >>> in a module. (Which is evil, of course, but people do it anyway.)
>> >>>
>> >>> But it might be worth adding a setuptools feature to pull metadata
>> >>> from PKG-INFO (or DIST-INFO) instead of generating a new one, to see
>> >>> what people think of using PKG-INFO first, other files second. In
>> >>> principle, one could reduce a setup.py to just "from setuptools import
>> >>> setup_distinfo; setup_distinfo()" or some such.
>> >>
>> >> In other words, using d2to1 and only for `setup.py egg_info` (only not
>> >> egg_info but whatever we're doing instead to generate the metadata ;)
>> >>
>> >> Erik
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>>
>> Rename it and make it JSON instead of the homebrew* format!
>>
>> * Yes techincally it's based on a real format, but that format doesn't
>> support all the things it needs so there are hackishly added extensions
>> added to it.
>>
>> -----------------
>> Donald Stufft
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