PEP 491: Mark as Deferred (#927)

pep-0491.txt

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ Version: $Revision$
 Last-Modified: $Date$
 Author: Daniel Holth <dholth@gmail.com>
 Discussions-To: <distutils-sig@python.org>
-Status: Draft
+Status: Deferred
 Type: Standards Track
 Content-Type: text/x-rst
 Created: 16 April 2015
@@ -27,6 +27,30 @@ This version of the wheel specification adds support for installing
 distributions into many different directories, and adds a way to find
 those files after they have been installed.
 
+
+PEP Deferral
+============
+
+This PEP is not currently being actively pursued, with Python packaging
+improvements currently focusing on the package build process rather than
+expanding the binary archive format to cover additional use cases.
+
+Some specific elements to be addressed when work on this PEP is resumed in the
+future:
+
+- migrating the official wheel format definition to
+  https://packaging.python.org/specifications/ (similar to what PEP 566 did for
+  https://packaging.python.org/specifications/core-metadata/)
+- updating the PEP itself to focus on the *changes* being made between the
+  two versions of the format and the rationale for those changes, rather than
+  having to repeat all the information that is unchanged from PEP 427
+- clarifying that the PEP is deliberately written to allow existing installers
+  to be compliant with the specification when using existing install scheme
+  definitions, while also allowing the creation of new install scheme
+  definitions that take advantage of the richer categorisation scheme for
+  the contents of the binary archive
+
+
 Rationale
 =========