2009/10/13 P.J. Eby <[email protected]>: > At 09:25 PM 10/13/2009 +0200, Tarek Ziadé wrote: >> >> Notice that the current trunk of Distribute is now changing any >> 'setuptools' >> requirement that is tiggered using "Requirement.parse" and "resolve" APIs >> into >> a 'distribute' one. > > Please note that this change will cause problems for people in the future, > as new features are introduced in the 0.7a1 line. The earlier version of > this hack, which only ignored requests for older versions of setuptools, > would not have caused such a problem. > > I would suggest that Distribute should only silently ignore requests for > versions of setuptools that it can explicitly emulate; other requests should > result in an error, so that a problem cannot pass silently. > > Otherwise, a package depending on new features in the 0.7 line will silently > fail when those features are not present in its operating environment.
Ok sure, makes sense. We will return 'distribute' only if 'setuptools' is from the 0.6.x series and below. _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
