[Python-Dev] BDFL delegation for PEP 426 (PyPI metadata 1.3) (original) (raw)

Brian Curtin brian at python.org
Sun Feb 3 21:07:21 CET 2013

On Sun, Feb 3, 2013 at 2:00 PM, Simon Cross <hodgestar+pythondev at gmail.com> wrote:

On Sun, Feb 3, 2013 at 9:42 PM, Daniel Holth <dholth at gmail.com> wrote:

Bento is the only available packaging tool to heap praise onto and it is impressive. If Bento is cool, is there some way we can help it gain more traction in the Python ecosystem? Not necessarily by incorporating it into stdlib, but perhaps by officially sanctioning it in other ways (documentation, PyPI, perhaps getting some helpful hooks / tweaks to Python itself)? I don't know the answer to these questions, but if there is a good solution out there, it would be cool to throw our community weight behind it.

I don't think we, as in python-dev, should do this. If people want to start telling others to use bento on their own, that's fine. For the core team to get behind it would probably require a lot of work to safely stamp it as "the new way...that we don't actually have anything to do with"

If python-dev officially says "hey, use bento", then it has all sorts of problems and ends up dying in 6 months, we will look like idiots.

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