On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 01:37:48PM +0200, M.-A. Lemburg wrote: [...] > > * Added fields: [...] > > - Requires-Dist > > - Provides-Dist > > - Obsoletes-Dist > > > > * Deprecated fields: > > > > - Requires (in favor of Requires-Dist) > > - Provides (in favor of Provides-Dist) > > - Obsoletes (in favor of Obsoletes-Dist) > > Where's the benefit of renaming the above three fields ? > > After all, the meta-data format is a distutils specific format, > so the extra "-Dist" qualifier appears unnecessary.
In PEP 314 the "Requires" field is meant to contain module or packages names. Now OTOH it seems people are more interested in the distribution names. Making this change explicit is a good thing I reckon. (There's a whole other discussion about how it would be easier to provide an alternative implementation if it was done on module/package name instead of distribution name, but I haven't got enough experience with that so am happy to go with what actually seems to be used now.) Regards Floris -- Debian GNU/Linux -- The Power of Freedom www.debian.org | www.gnu.org | www.kernel.org _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
