Btw we also need to add some metadata that should be described in PEP 345 and added in PKG-INFO:
- maintainer and maintainer_email see: http://bugs.python.org/issue3686 On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 7:05 PM, Tarek Ziadé <ziade.ta...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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/ > -- 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
