[Distutils] Towards a simple and standard sdist format that isn't intertwined with distutils

[Nathaniel Smith]

On Oct 8, 2015 8:14 AM, "Nathaniel Smith" <njs at pobox.com> wrote:
>
> On Oct 7, 2015 2:58 PM, "Donald Stufft" <donald at stufft.io> wrote:
> >
> > On October 7, 2015 at 5:28:54 PM, Nathaniel Smith (njs at pobox.com) wrote:
> > > > Yeah, that's not a good long term solution -- it needs to be moved
> > > into the metadata (probably by creating an MKL wheel and then
> > > making
> > > the numpy wheel depend on it). That's exactly the problem :-)
> > >
> >
> > Are you available on IRC or for a video call or something? I feel like
there's
> > something foundational from both sides that we're each missing here and
it'd be
> > easier to just hash it out in real time rather than lobbying random
emails
> > coming from places of confusion (at least on my side).
> >
> > I'm not sure if Paul (or anyone else!) would want to jump in on it too,
though
> > I feel like probably if it's me and you then the two "sides" will
probably be
> > reasonably well represented so if more folks don't want to join that's
probably
> > OK too, particularly since we wouldn't be making any actual decisions
there :D
>
> This does sound like it would be a good idea -- couldn't hurt, anyway
:-). I'll contact you offlist. If anyone else wants to join in, email me...

Looks like this is happening tomorrow (Fri Oct 9) at 11 am California / 2
pm New York / 7 pm London. Since there's been at least some interest, we'll
do it as a Google hangout and send a link around in case anyone wants to
listen in, and of course summarize back to the list.

-n
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