Does it really have baggage? I think it is necessary, although it doesn't do favors to the implementer (and has never been implemented). How else is anyone supposed to fork or merge projects?
Daniel Holth On Nov 19, 2012, at 7:37 PM, PJ Eby <p...@telecommunity.com> wrote: > On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 6:53 PM, Daniel Holth <dho...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I think this PEP is a significant improvement from its predecessor. It >> represents features like extras (provides-extra) and build requirements >> (setup-requires-dist) that are in use in the Python community but cannot be >> represented in older versions of the format, it finally specifies a UTF-8 >> encoding, removes RFC 822, provides an extension mechanism, and allows the >> description to be placed in the document payload. > > Can we maybe kill Provides-Dist and its associated baggage first, though? >
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