-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Tarek Ziadé wrote: > On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 5:44 PM, Tres Seaver <tsea...@palladion.com> 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. > > In that case, I am not sure to see what's the point of keeping an > external reference registery at PyPI, > as a free place where anyone can put anything. The only gain I was > seeing it normalization. > > If no normalization is done, then a plain README.txt file with this > info in the project itself is sufficient, or maybe making the field > hold these (name, description, url) info directly.
This isn't *about* PyPI: it is about putting the information in a standard place for downstream packagers (*they* requested it). PyPI should either ignore the field or just pass it through untouched: downstream packagers are going to examine the PKG_INFO file in the tarball they work with, and might write scripts which do the mapping of the machine-readable file to their own dependency names. Tres. - -- =================================================================== Tres Seaver +1 540-429-0999 tsea...@palladion.com Palladion Software "Excellence by Design" http://palladion.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAksC/rsACgkQ+gerLs4ltQ4+rgCgiyIVoFCReG8KNE/BixtxCWH/ gOAAnjN8v8I4rS7MUiok3Xb64Lq89dW9 =OIBJ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
