[Python-Dev] no consensus on static metadata

[Georg Brandl]

Chris Withers schrieb:
> Tarek Ziadé wrote:
>>> NB: There was no consensus on this "micro-language" on distutils-sig.
>>> While I suspect I don't care as none of my packages rely on anything other
>>> than other python packages, others did care, and I found the syntax Tarek
>>> was proposing pretty clumsy.
>> 
>> Please no bikeshedding again on the syntax. 
> 
> Tarek, throwing "bikeshedding" at an important syntactical discussion 
> like this is verging on rude. Please stop it and accept that the best 
> solution has not been found yet.

At some point a decision must be made, and it will be made by Tarek as the
"main packaging guy" (don't want to throw "dictator" around again).  For
syntax, there often is no such thing as "the best solution".

Georg

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