[Distutils] Builders vs Installers

[Daniel Holth]

I want to poke myself in the eye every time I have to edit json by hand.
Especially the description field.
On Mar 26, 2013 5:17 PM, "Donald Stufft" <donald at stufft.io> wrote:

>
> On Mar 26, 2013, at 5:12 PM, Daniel Holth <dholth at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I am -1 on renaming anything unless it solves a technical problem.
> > Forever after we will have to explain "well, it used to be called X,
> > now it's called Y..."
> >
> > On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 5:01 PM, Erik Bray <erik.m.bray at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >> On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 4:08 PM, PJ Eby <pje at telecommunity.com> wrote:
> >>> On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 3:03 PM, Daniel Holth <dholth at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>>> I think PKG-INFO is a highly human-editable format.
> >>>
> >>> That doesn't mean you necessarily want to edit it yourself; notably,
> >>> there will likely be some redundancy between the description in the
> >>> file and other files like the README.
> >>>
> >>> Also, today one of the key use cases people have for custom code in
> >>> setup.py is to pull the package version from a __version__ attribute
> >>> in a module.  (Which is evil, of course, but people do it anyway.)
> >>>
> >>> But it might be worth adding a setuptools feature to pull metadata
> >>> from PKG-INFO (or DIST-INFO) instead of generating a new one, to see
> >>> what people think of using PKG-INFO first, other files second.  In
> >>> principle, one could reduce a setup.py to just "from setuptools import
> >>> setup_distinfo; setup_distinfo()" or some such.
> >>
> >> In other words, using d2to1 and only for `setup.py egg_info` (only not
> >> egg_info but whatever we're doing instead to generate the metadata ;)
> >>
> >> Erik
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>
> Rename it and make it JSON instead of the homebrew* format!
>
> * Yes techincally it's based on a real format, but that format doesn't
> support all the things it needs so there are hackishly added extensions
> added to it.
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