Why is Pipfile toml and other questions?

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Why is Pipfile toml and other questions? #78

Closed amjith closed 7 years ago

amjith commented 7 years ago

I'm interested in this project. I'd like to understand the reasoning behind some of the design decisions. I had asked the following questions in the #pypa irc channel. But I figured this is an appropriate forum for them.

Why is the Pipfile a toml file instead of a JSON?
Since pipfile is inspired by yarn and cargo, is there a plan to support a more holistic approach to packaging? Such as init, publish, test, run, build etc?

Screwtapello commented 7 years ago

Why is the Pipfile a TOML file

Because other Python packaging standards use TOML

amjith commented 7 years ago

Thank you for that. It makes perfect sense. 😄

pradyunsg commented 7 years ago

You can find the relevant discussions in #46, #14 and #10. :)