[Python-Dev] Fwd: PEP 426 is now the draft spec for distribution metadata 2.0

[Tres Seaver]

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On 02/19/2013 09:37 PM, Paul Moore wrote:
> On 20 February 2013 00:54, Fred Drake <fred at fdrake.net> wrote:
>> I'd posit that anything successful will no longer need to be added
>> to the standard library, to boot.  Packaging hasn't done well
>> there.
> 
> distlib may be the exception, though. Packaging tools are somewhat 
> unique because of the chicken and egg issue involved in having a 
> packaging tool with external dependencies - who installs your 
> dependencies for you? So enabling technology (library code to perform 
> packaging-related tasks, particularly in support of standardised 
> formats) could be better available from the stdlib.

The big blocker there is that users can't rely on having it in the stdlib
until after they drop Python < 3.4 (assuming accelearated absorption) or
even 3.5.


Tres.
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