[Python-Dev] PEP 441 - Improving Python ZIP Application Support (original) (raw)

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Sat Feb 21 15:05:07 CET 2015

On 19 February 2015 at 07:16, Paul Moore <p.f.moore at gmail.com> wrote:

On 18 February 2015 at 20:48, Jim J. Jewett <jimjjewett at gmail.com> wrote:

Barry Warsaw wrote:

I don't know exactly what the procedure would be to claim .pyz for *nix, e.g. updating /etc/mime.types, but I think the PEP should at least mention this. I think we want to get as official support for .pyz files on *nix as possible. Paul Moore wrote: I'll add a note to the PEP, but I have no idea how we would even go about that, so that's all I can do, unfortunately. Are you just looking for http://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/media-types.xhtml and its references, including the registration procedures http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6838#section-4.2.5 and the application form at http://www.iana.org/form/media-types ? That covers mime types, but not file extensions, so it's not really what I thought Barry was talking about.

FWIW, registering the vnd.python MIME prefix with IANA has been vaguely kicking around on my todo list since we switched the PyPA metadata PEPs over to using JSON. If anyone did decide to follow up on that idea, the PSF Infrastructure working group mailing list would likely be a suitable contact address to use (Infra already handles relationships with other internet registries for DNS et al, and I can't think of another group better suited to the task).

Cheers, Nick.

-- Nick Coghlan | ncoghlan at gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia

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