Fred Drake wrote: > On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 7:37 AM, M.-A. Lemburg <m...@egenix.com> wrote: >> Where's the benefit of renaming the above three fields ? > > I don't see any benefit here either; if we want to add fields for > Python package or anything else, new (more explicit) field names can > be added, without ever requiring these to be changed. > > As much as having more explicit names would be nice, it's not worth > the disruption caused by deprecation cycles, or the accompanying > confusion. These sorts of changes have very long uptake, while the > clarity benefit is close to non-existent. > >> I'd also remove the "Requires-" from "Requires-Python" and >> simply use "Python" as field name. > > +0 > >> The micro-language should provide a limited number of >> variables to use on the conditions: >> >> python_version = sys.version >> sys_platform = sys.platform > > If we adopt such a micro-language (I'm reserving judgment until I've > had more time to read the relevant PEPs carefully), I'd rather see the > names match what's in the Python runtime more closely, probably only > avoiding the call syntax.
We could do that as well, yes. > This would make the examples: > > requires: pywin32; if sys.platform == 'win32' > requires: bar (>1.0); if sys.platform == 'win32' > requires: foo; if platform.machine == 'i386' > requires: bar; if sys.version == '2.4' or sys.version == '2.5' > requires: baz; if 'linux' in sys.platform > >> The same notation could also be used in setup() keyword >> parameters for the meta-data fields, e.g. > > Whatever notation is adopted should be used consistently. Agreed. -- Marc-Andre Lemburg eGenix.com Professional Python Services directly from the Source (#1, Oct 20 2009) >>> Python/Zope Consulting and Support ... http://www.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC.Zope.Database.Adapter ... http://zope.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC, mxDateTime, mxTextTools ... http://python.egenix.com/ ________________________________________________________________________ ::: Try our new mxODBC.Connect Python Database Interface for free ! :::: eGenix.com Software, Skills and Services GmbH Pastor-Loeh-Str.48 D-40764 Langenfeld, Germany. CEO Dipl.-Math. Marc-Andre Lemburg Registered at Amtsgericht Duesseldorf: HRB 46611 http://www.egenix.com/company/contact/ _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
