On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 12:58 PM, Marius Gedminas <mar...@pov.lt> wrote: > On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 07:40:36AM -0400, Jim Fulton wrote: >> On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 7:29 PM, Paul Moore <p.f.mo...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > On 14 March 2012 19:04, Tarek Ziadé <ta...@ziade.org> wrote: >> >>> Please can we have a new format that only has a Python version in the >> >>> filename if it matters? >> >> >> >> isn't that supposed to be the source release ? >> > >> > Yes, basically - at least as far as I understand. >> > >> >> Why would someone create a binary release when >> >> it's pure Python ? >> > >> > I wish I knew. But people do - mostly egg format files. But I think >> > this is partly because of the confusion between >> > egg-as-distribution-format vs egg-as-directly-usable-object that PJE >> > alludes to in his emails. >> >> I sometimes create platform-independent eggs to indicate a Python-version >> dependency. Until d2/p, there was no other way to indicate dependence >> on a particular Python version. > > Except for Trove classifiers, of course: > > 'Programming Language :: Python', > 'Programming Language :: Python :: 2', > 'Programming Language :: Python :: 2.4', > 'Programming Language :: Python :: 2.5', > 'Programming Language :: Python :: 2.6', > 'Programming Language :: Python :: 2.7', > 'Programming Language :: Python :: 3', > 'Programming Language :: Python :: 3.1', > 'Programming Language :: Python :: 3.2', > > Or do I misunderstand your requirements?
None of the tools use Trove classifiers to make decisions about what to download afaik. Jim -- Jim Fulton http://www.linkedin.com/in/jimfulton _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
