On Sun, 30 Jun 2013 18:46:51 -0400, Donald Stufft wrote: > On Jun 30, 2013, at 6:39 PM, Gabriel de Perthuis <g2p.c...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> So it would prefer that dev and test be extras with well known names, >> so that dev, test, and any other extras define dependencies with a >> minimum of ambiguity and without the need for a second level of >> qualifiers. > > "Well known names" is way more ambiguous than a top level field. > It's easy to have minor variances across various packages, "test" vs > "tests", "docs", "doc", "documentation". Both top level and "kind" > share the fact that there is a limited number of allowed names, > which makes it simple to validate that the same name is being used > everywhere (because anything outside of those limited numbers are > rejected).
These well-known names would also have some tool support. Something like `pip install-dev` would be sufficient. _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
