-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Tarek Ziadé wrote:
>> near none. I don't see much point in a field for this feature: that's >> a typical example where every os vendor is different, and it would >> bring more confusion that it worth IMHO. > > I agree. > > And I can think about a few scenarii where the names managment at PyPI > will be a nightmare. > > The PyPI manager will have to decide unilaterally the names to keep, > the names to change, and he will need to maintain aliases for names > that points to the same lib, to make both camps happy, > and possibly keep backward compatibilities for those names. > > I am proposing to remove the Requires-External completely from PEP > 345, unless someone wants it badly. (And he/she will need to go into > greater details in these scenarii) - -1. I don't see a problem keeping it: it is "advisory" only. PyPI is not a consumer of this field, and should *not* be doing any enforcement / normalization / mapping of its values. 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 iEYEARECAAYFAksC0uUACgkQ+gerLs4ltQ55JQCbBDH7gyWpWvw4+Lp+43GYV0QN qwwAmgICi+HzQCj9lt44e1lRY143Dj/U =EN8s -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig