[Distutils] Maintaining a curated set of Python packages

[Nick Coghlan]

On 16 December 2016 at 00:57, Wes Turner <wes.turner at gmail.com> wrote:
> This would be a graph. JSONLD?
> #PEP426JSONLD:
> - https://www.google.com/search?q=pep426jsonld
> - https://github.com/pypa/interoperability-peps/issues/31
>
> With JSONLD, we could merge SoftwarePackage metadata with
> SoftwarePackageCollection metadata (just throwing some types out there).

Wes, JSON-LD is a metasystem used for descriptive analytics across
mixed datasets, which *isn't a problem we have*. We have full
authority over the data formats we care about, and the user needs that
matter to distutils-sig are:

- publishers of Python packages
- consumers of Python packages
- maintainers of the toolchain

It would *absolutely* make sense for Semantic Web folks to get
involved in the libraries.io project (either directly, or by building
a separate service backed by the libraries.io data set) and seek to
produce a global set of semantically linked data that spans not only
dependencies within language ecosystems, but also dependencies between
them. It *doesn't* make sense for every single language ecosystem to
come up with its own unique spin on how to incorporate software
packages into semantic web models, nor does it make sense to try to
warp the Python packaging user experience to better meet the needs of
taxonomists of knowledge.

This answer hasn't changed the last dozen times you've brought up
JSON-LD. It isn't *going* to change. So please stop bringing it up.

Regards,
Nick.

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