[Distutils] Builders vs Installers

[Donald Stufft]

On Mar 27, 2013, at 2:04 PM, Vinay Sajip <vinay_sajip at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> Donald Stufft <donald <at> stufft.io> writes:
> 
> 
>> I don't think the packaging formats should dictate the development flow at all.
> 
> We might be at cross purposes here. If we posit that packaging metadata is in
> JSON format (which I think we both favour), I was addressing Daniel's objection
> to it on the grounds that he doesn't like editing JSON, to suggest an alternative
> for people with that objection. It doesn't follow that they *have* to use any
> particular workflow or tool, or that packaging formats are dictating it (other
> than the bare fact that they are JSON).
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Vinay Sajip
> 
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Gotcha, yea in my mind the JSON is generated by the archiver tool and added to the various types of dists, wheels, etc.

What the users actually edit/use is totally up to the archiver tool. It could be .in files it could be a python file, it could be YAML, it could pull from a SQLite database. Packaging shouldn't care as long as it gets it's sdists bdists, wheels etc in the proper format with the proper metadata files.

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