Tarek Ziadé wrote: > Oh... so what about this: > > - PyPI publishes setuptools metadata, but in Metadata 1.2 format. The > conversion is pretty simple, it's just translating the requires.txt > into PEP 345 fields. > - We add a marker so we know that those metadata are from setuptools > > That way, PyPI has an unified interface to get the dependencies, and > if there's an issue in project X because the static metadata fails on > platform Y, we ask the project to provide real PEP 345 metadata.
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