Jim started a branch during Pycon, maybe you can push your work over there for review here ?
Also, I am wondering if we shouldn't merge it with PEP 376, where we might want to add a REQUIRES file into the egg.info structure, besides the PKG-INFO file. Cheers Tarek On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 6:55 PM, Tres Seaver <tsea...@palladion.com> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > I haven't heard back from Richard Jones, who is the PEP owner, but have > perpared to update PEP 345[1] in line with what to be the majority view > (at PyCon) for adding "distribution-level" dependency metadata (as > opposed to importable package / module dependencies) to the PKG-INFO file. > > I have backed off on the notion of overloading 'Requires:' / 'Provides:' > / 'Obsoletes:', following Jim's notion of deprecating them in favor of > new fields. I named them 'Requires-Dist:', 'Provides-Dist:', and > 'Obsoletes-Dist'. > > "Stock" distutils should probably spell the arguments to > distutils.core.setup predictably: 'requires_dist', 'provides_dist', > 'obsoletes_dist'. setuptools can treat 'install_requires' as an > undeprecated alias for 'requires_dist'. > > > [1] http://svn.python.org/view/peps/trunk/pep-0345.txt?view=markup > > > Tres. > - -- > =================================================================== > Tres Seaver +1 540-429-0999 tsea...@palladion.com > Palladion Software "Excellence by Design" http://palladion.com > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > iD8DBQFJ3iiI+gerLs4ltQ4RAtVLAKCZsXVoS9a0f0B0o8eAErsPmZP6OACePvJ7 > 8nx3i8Z4LEOsj0SsNczDtAk= > =l7Kk > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > Distutils-SIG maillist - distutils-...@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig > -- Tarek Ziadé | Association AfPy | www.afpy.org Blog FR | http://programmation-python.org Blog EN | http://tarekziade.wordpress.com/ _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
