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

[Robert Collins]

Toss me an invite too - I'm very interested in this, for all that I
havent' kibbitzed on the thread yet :)

On 9 October 2015 at 05:33, Nathaniel Smith <njs at pobox.com> wrote:
> 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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