Re: [Docutils-develop] docutils prerelease 0.19b1

[Adam T. <aat...@ou...>]

Dear Günter, Engelbert, all,

> Open Points (best solved before releasing 0.19 (final)):
> 
> - input encoding:
> 
>   * Announce a switch of the default to 'utf-8'?
>   * Mark the handling of "input_encoding is None" as provisional?

I would be in favour of both of these, yes.

> - tools / entry-points:
> 
>   * Announce upcoming changes?
> 
>     · name changes (drop extension *.py)

We should announce this, yes.

>     · keep the scripts in /tools but install auto-generated scripts
>       via entry-points (allows modern packager, supports Windows)

For now I think we should keep the scripts in tools/, but perhaps later consider deprecating and removing them.

>     · do not install "exotic" scripts in the binary PATH?

Which would we keep? There is an argument for eventually only installing ``docutils`` into PATH. I agree we should cut down what we put into PATH regardless.

Thanks,
Adam