On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 8:20 AM, Donald Stufft <[email protected]> wrote: > setuptools is a non standard addition to Python packaging which > is impossible to safely extract requirements in a 100% generic > way.
That's not really fair. Setuptools tried hard to build on the standard, distutils and was blessed by Guido at one point. But that's beside the point.... > Distutils2 / metadata 1.2 includes a safe, good way to specify > requirements similar to setup tools but it's not ready for primetime yet. Perhaps support for the new meta-data configuration files could be added to distribute. (Perhaps it has already?) If distribute supported (or with help, could support) the new meta-data standard, that would allow us to move forward on proven software. Jim -- Jim Fulton http://www.linkedin.com/in/jimfulton Jerky is better than bacon! http://zo.pe/Kqm _______________________________________________ Catalog-SIG mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/catalog-sig
