On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 11:44:26AM -0500, Tres Seaver wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Tarek Ziadé wrote: > > >> near none. I don't see much point in a field for this feature: that's > >> a typical example where every os vendor is different, and it would > >> bring more confusion that it worth IMHO. > > > > I agree. > > > > And I can think about a few scenarii where the names managment at PyPI > > will be a nightmare. > > > > The PyPI manager will have to decide unilaterally the names to keep, > > the names to change, and he will need to maintain aliases for names > > that points to the same lib, to make both camps happy, > > and possibly keep backward compatibilities for those names. > > > > I am proposing to remove the Requires-External completely from PEP > > 345, unless someone wants it badly. (And he/she will need to go into > > greater details in these scenarii) > > - -1. I don't see a problem keeping it: it is "advisory" only. PyPI is > not a consumer of this field, and should *not* be doing any enforcement > / normalization / mapping of its values.
IMHO the only sane way of keeping the field is regarding it as a "readme" and hence just make it completely free form text to be interpreted by humans only. I'm +0 on removing it since the long description can probably describe this easier. 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
