On 18 February 2016 at 13:48, Nick Coghlan <[email protected]> wrote: >> Yes, twine is a good, concrete example. > > I believe tools like pyp2rpm, conda skeleton, py2dsc and fpm also rely on > that static sdist metadata (I'm not 100% sure on that, but it would make > sense for them to do so).
Yeah, I'm sure there are a lot of tools out there that use the sdist metadata. In a lot of ways, pip is an extremely atypical example of a sdist consumer. > We just spend so much time worrying about the dependency management problems > that PKG-INFO *doesn't* handle that we forget the simpler descriptive > metadata that it covers accurately :) Indeed - and by focusing solely on pip's requirements in many ways we're designing for an edge case (admittedly a hugely significant and by far the most used edge case, but even so...) :-) Paul _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
