On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 9:46 AM, Daniel Holth <[email protected]> wrote: > My markerlib implements the PEP. https://bitbucket.org/dholth/markerlib > > The parsing is simpler than you might expect. There is no monkey patching. > > It is a (non-API) part of distribute since about last August.
But we're not implementing the PEP. The PEP is only tangentially related to this use case. I'd be happy to be PEP informed, but not if it makes things awkward. It's much easier to say "these are python expressions with the following variables available" than to say "you can use the expressions described in PEP 426 plus additional variables", where, BTW, you can't say ``not windows``, which is probably one of the 2 most common expressions you'd want to use. Note that many or most buildout users would have no reason to be familiar with the PEP. This isn't a criticism of the PEP. The PEP was developed for some use case that's different than this one. Well, I'm guessing because the PEP doesn't actually state the problems it's addressing. Jim -- Jim Fulton http://www.linkedin.com/in/jimfulton Jerky is better than bacon! http://zo.pe/Kqm _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
