On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 12:08 PM, Donald Stufft <donald.stu...@gmail.com> wrote: > Maybe that's just me though.
Nope, it's "In the face of ambiguity, refuse the temptation to guess" applied to dependency metadata. It's one of the core philosophical differences between the stdlib and systems like setuptools. If *others* want to guess in their automated systems, that's their prerogative. We prefer to put up a barrier and say "be explicit about what you want". You see the same difference in perspective between datetime and dateutil - even though we agree there are contexts where guessing is useful, we will generally consider such tools a poor fit for the standard library, instead leaving them to the third party ecosystem. Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
