[Distutils] Working toward Linux wheel support

[Nathaniel Smith]

On Fri, Sep 4, 2015 at 9:24 PM, Marcus Smith <qwcode at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I don't have a specific problem with the specs living somewhere else
>> as well, I just don't think moving a lengthy document full of edge cases
>> from one location to another is going to make things better
>
> If I may, I don't think that really captures Nick's idea.
>
> I think it's about clearly distinguishing the following:
>
> 1) Current Specs (for metadata, versioning, pypi etc..)
> 2) Proposals to adjust or add to the Current Specs
>
> We don't have a clear distinction right now.   We just have a series of
> PEPs, and it's work to figure out where the actual current spec is at, in
> the noise of rationales and transition plans etc...

Speaking as someone who has been pretty confused in the past trying to
look up what the actual current rules are for something like version
numbers or metadata (is this the current PEP? oh wait this one's newer
-- oh but wait is the newer one still in development? or maybe
abandoned?, etc.): +1

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Nathaniel J. Smith -- http://vorpus.org