On 8/14/2015 16:16, Chris Barker wrote:
On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 9:17 AM, Steve Dower <steve.do...@python.org <mailto:steve.do...@python.org>> wrote:

    There was discussion about an "incompatible_with" metadata item at
    one point. Could numpy include {incompatible_with: "scipy<x.y"} in
    such a release? Or would that not be possible.


circular dependency hell! scipy depends on numpy, not teh other way around -- so it needs to be clear which version of numpy a given version of scipy depends on.

-CHB

I think a better spelling of that would be something along the lines of 'abi_version' - listing all the packages your new version of your module breaks... is a long list.

- Alex W.
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