Re: [Distutils] Merging forks

2013-06-11 Thread Donald Stufft
On Jun 11, 2013, at 4:46 AM, Paul Moore wrote: > Something prompted by the setuptools merge, and its impact on pip. Does > Python's packaging metadata need a way of declaring in a package that it is a > merge of (two or more) other packages? > > Obviously this is a rare scenario, but it's pai

[Distutils] Merging forks

2013-06-11 Thread Paul Moore
Something prompted by the setuptools merge, and its impact on pip. Does Python's packaging metadata need a way of declaring in a package that it is a merge of (two or more) other packages? Obviously this is a rare scenario, but it's painful when it occurs (how can a tool know that setuptools 0.7 i