[Distutils] moving things forward (was: wheel including files it shouldn't)

[Daniel Holth]

Just call it Steve

On Wed, May 4, 2016, 16:25 Robert Collins <robertc at robertcollins.net> wrote:

> On 4 May 2016 at 19:39, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 4 May 2016 at 16:03, Robert Collins <robertc at robertcollins.net>
> wrote:
> >> The edits I'd expect to make if the conclusions I suggested in
> >> https://mail.python.org/pipermail/distutils-sig/2016-March/028437.html
> >> are adopted are:
> >>
> >>  - change to a Python API
> >>  - BFDL call on the file format and name
> >>
> >> There is no need to issue a new sdist thing, because sdists today are
> >> *already* documented across PEPs 241, 314 and 345.
> >
> > I already +1'ed using a Python API, but on the file name & format
> > side, we have the following candidates and prior art floating around:
> >
> > pypa.json in PEP 516
> > pypackage.json in PEP 517
> > pydist.json in PEP 426
> > METADATA (Key: Value) in sdists and wheels
> > WHEEL (Key: Value) in wheels
> >
> > My impression is that we're generally agreed on wanting to move from
> > Key:Value to JSON as the baseline for interoperability formats, so my
> > suggestion is to use the name "pybuild.json".
> >
> > The problem I have with pypa/pypackage/pydist is that they're all too
> > broad - we're moving towards an explicitly multi-stage pipeline (tree
> > -> sdist -> wheel -> installed) and additional metadata gets added at
> > each step. The "pybuild.json" metadata specifically covers how to get
> > from a source tree or sdist to a built wheel file, so I think it makes
> > sense to use a name that reflects that.
>
> I don't think we have anything resembling consensus on that pipeline idea.
>
> pybuild.json would be fine as a name though :).
>
> -Rob
>
>
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