On Oct 17, 2013, at 11:23 AM, Jim Fulton <j...@zope.com> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 11:20 AM, Michael Foord <fuzzy...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> >> >> On 17 October 2013 11:56, Donald Stufft <don...@stufft.io> wrote: >>> >>> Arguably it's already broken. I've had to explain to a number of people >>> that it won't cause their dependencies to install. I think its way more user >>> friendly to tell them up front then to confuse them when it doesn't work or >>> when it appears to work but they get an error from a - >>> >> >> You're proposing replacing "arguably broken" (by some definition) > > Is there any reason to think that it ever actually worked in any way?
Depends what you mean by "worked", it does nothing except tell users what they need available to ``import``. It doesn't tell them how to get that or what provides it. As far as this piece of metadata is concerned requires "xml" can be satisfied by ``touch xml.py``. So it "works" in that it does what it was originally intended to do, it's just that what it was originally intended to do is backwards and useless. > > Jim > > -- > Jim Fulton > http://www.linkedin.com/in/jimfulton ----------------- Donald Stufft PGP: 0x6E3CBCE93372DCFA // 7C6B 7C5D 5E2B 6356 A926 F04F 6E3C BCE9 3372 DCFA
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