Hi,
Hopefully this will be a more useful spec.
Thanks for the proposal, but it is not really a spec. You’re suggesting
name and syntax for a new field, but you don’t describe what it means
and what it is used for. From what I understand, the goal is similar to
build dependencies and optional dependencies in systems like Debian’s
dpkg; for the build dependencies, there were multiple threads about
adding Setup-Requires-Dist (like setuptools’ setup_requires) and
Test-Requires-Dist (like tests_require, or whatever the spelling is—I
always get it wrong :), for which we were near to agreement. See
https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!searchin/the-fellowship-of-the-packaging/setup-requires/the-fellowship-of-the-packaging/KVsDQawfEno/M-ODKx9Ne5YJ
and
https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!searchin/the-fellowship-of-the-packaging/setup-requires/the-fellowship-of-the-packaging/yTsRLtl6eoE/fVGb4t2zm68J
This begs for parenthesis in environment markers, something that is
easy to do by compiling markers to Python functions using the ast as
`markerlib` does.
distutils2 supports Python 2.5, which has _ast but not ast IIRC. If you
have other suggestions for improvements like this please open bug
reports though! Feedback and patches are welcome.
Regards
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