-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Floris Bruynooghe wrote: > On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 10:39:51AM +0200, Tarek Ziadé wrote: >> PEP 345 is the PEP for the new metadata format, replacing PEP 314. I >> have upgraded it, using Tres's work from last year, and the next step >> is to add the context marker presented in PEP 390. >> >> I have also updated PEP 386 to link it to PEP 345. > [...] >> Please comment! > > In PEP 345 the Provides-Dist field mentions that when you use a > virtual distribution you automatically conflict with other > distributions providing this virtual dist. The next field, > Obsoletes-Dist, explicitly says it's to conflict with another dist. I > guess you can obsolte a dist without providing it, but when would this > be used? Basically I don't fully understand the intended manings and > interactions of Provides-Dist and Obsoletes-Dist.
Obsoletes is normally used (as with dpkg / rpm) to cope with changes in distribution (package) names. Tres. - -- =================================================================== Tres Seaver +1 540-429-0999 tsea...@palladion.com Palladion Software "Excellence by Design" http://palladion.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkrlBSoACgkQ+gerLs4ltQ4tUACgltNdAHD8GV6tbVrHvPgO6EuI mw4AoLU4qhQ5qv4yczdyD7QEdJK5FtSG =70rV -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
