-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I haven't heard back from Richard Jones, who is the PEP owner, but have perpared to update PEP 345[1] in line with what to be the majority view (at PyCon) for adding "distribution-level" dependency metadata (as opposed to importable package / module dependencies) to the PKG-INFO file.
I have backed off on the notion of overloading 'Requires:' / 'Provides:' / 'Obsoletes:', following Jim's notion of deprecating them in favor of new fields. I named them 'Requires-Dist:', 'Provides-Dist:', and 'Obsoletes-Dist'. "Stock" distutils should probably spell the arguments to distutils.core.setup predictably: 'requires_dist', 'provides_dist', 'obsoletes_dist'. setuptools can treat 'install_requires' as an undeprecated alias for 'requires_dist'. [1] http://svn.python.org/view/peps/trunk/pep-0345.txt?view=markup Tres. - -- =================================================================== Tres Seaver +1 540-429-0999 tsea...@palladion.com Palladion Software "Excellence by Design" http://palladion.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFJ3iiI+gerLs4ltQ4RAtVLAKCZsXVoS9a0f0B0o8eAErsPmZP6OACePvJ7 8nx3i8Z4LEOsj0SsNczDtAk= =l7Kk -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
