Tarek Ziadé wrote: > On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 9:27 PM, Hanno Schlichting <hanno...@hannosch.eu> > wrote: >> Tarek Ziadé wrote: >>> On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 9:07 PM, Hanno Schlichting <hanno...@hannosch.eu> >>> wrote: >>>> >>>> I'd like to suggest that distutils metadata should gain a way of >>>> specifying compatibility with packages in addition to the requirement of >>>> packages. > > I think the classifiers works pretty well there. (If we look at your use > cases, > and the classifiers browsing features at PyPI)
Right, it seems to be a bit of an abuse to use classifiers which include version numbers, but it might work well enough. What I care most about is to have a defined way of stating this information, so we can build tools on top of it. I'd like to have Plone get the ability to get a button saying "Check for upgrade" which can produce a version list of locally installed packages, post them to a service at plone.org and get back a result saying: "There's a new version of Plone out, but 3 of your 9 installed plug-ins are not yet available for this version." > The only problem I can see is the fact that they have to be added "manually" > at PyPI. If we put apart this problem, do you see any remaining problem ? Yes, but this might just as well be solved by documenting the procedure for requesting new classifiers clearly. Hanno _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
