[Distutils] Environment marker expression types

[Daniel Holth]

So who's going to check how much long strings in json really cost?
On Apr 27, 2013 6:11 PM, "PJ Eby" <pje at telecommunity.com> wrote:

> On Sat, Apr 27, 2013 at 12:54 PM, Daniel Holth <dholth at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Do we really have to optimize the metadata for runtime parsing, or can
> > we have a distlib-specific indexing operation triggered by the
> > installer?
>
> As long as the same thing is done inside a zipped wheel, duplication
> of the data is ok by me.  (IOW, if it's a *build-time* step, not an
> install step.)  Technically, though, it probably makes the most sense
> to do it when the machine-readable metadata is generated, in order to
> support in-place builds ala "setup.py develop" and "setup.py test".
>
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