On Apr 9, 2009, at 12:55 PM, Tres Seaver wrote:
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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'.
What is the rational for this? I'd strongly prefer the "requires"
argument name to be compatible with setuptools. Otherwise, I think
we'll introduce needless confusion.
Jim
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Jim Fulton
Zope Corporation
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