On 17 October 2013 04:01, Donald Stufft <don...@stufft.io> wrote: > As many are aware distutils has the "requires" field and such. These > fields are designed to list something you *import* not something you > install from PyPI. I believe these fields to be generally useless, > supported > by the fact distutils2 deprecated them, and outright user hostile. Users > do not tend to realize that these aren't PyPI distributions and attempt to > use them for that case. This generally "works" in that it will show up on > PyPI but it will fail as soon as a distribution contains a character like > -. > > So what I would like to do is "remove" these fields. This would consist > of modifying PyPI to return an error code if they are included and hiding > the existing data in the UX. It might at a future time also consist of > removing > the data from the DB all together. > > What do people think? > >
+1 to hiding them in the PyPI UI. -1 to breaking setup.py upload / register ! Michael > ----------------- > Donald Stufft > PGP: 0x6E3CBCE93372DCFA // 7C6B 7C5D 5E2B 6356 A926 F04F 6E3C BCE9 3372 > DCFA > > > _______________________________________________ > Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig > > -- http://www.voidspace.org.uk/ May you do good and not evil May you find forgiveness for yourself and forgive others May you share freely, never taking more than you give. -- the sqlite blessing http://www.sqlite.org/different.html
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