Chris Withers wrote: > Tarek Ziadé wrote: >> Last, "Requires-Python" is introduced to define the version of Python. >> I am not sure this is required anymore since Martin has added a Trove >> classifier >> for this. > > I don't think Trove classifiers have anything to do with this. > Otherwise, we could move *all* the requirements stuff into trove > classification which buys us nothing more than having to maintain a huge > list of trove classifiers. > > I like the idea of Requires-Python, but only because I don't see why > Python can't just be specified in the equivalent of setuptools' > install_requires and its ilk. > > Why can't python just be treated as another package on while a package > my have a particular version dependency?
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