Alex Clark <aclark <at> aclark.net> writes: > > Just jumping in here, but I don't think that the distribute > distribution providing the setuptools module is indicative of a fork. > It's an example of a distribution that does not contain a module name > you'd expect it to, based on the distribution name. PIL is another > example: from PIL import Image. And in the case of PIL at least, the > fork distribution name does not change anything: pip install Pillow; > from PIL import Image.
Sure, but my main point was about having "Provides" be a multi-valued field, which opens the door to a lot of complexity for perhaps little or no benefit. I don't have any problem with the use of "Provides" as a canonical name for a distribution. Even before Pillow came along, there used to be confusion, IIRC, between the names "Imaging" and "PIL". Regards, Vinay Sajip _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
