Tarek Ziadé wrote:
The four sentences summary for people in a hurry:
If you're going to promise sentences, please deliver sentences...
Getting metadata of a distribution that is not.
installed means running its setup.py. This means.
downloading the whole archive, and running.
third party code on your system.
This is not a sentence, and I have no idea what you're trying to convey...
A context dependant section is a section with a condition that is.
used only if the execution environment meets its condition.
Here's an example::
[setup]
name: Foo
version: 1.3
[setup:sys_platform == 'win32']
requires: pywin32
requires: bar > 1.0
[setup:os_machine == '64bits']
requires: some_package
[setup:python_version == '2.4' or python_version == '2.5']
requires: some_package
As was brought up on the distutils list, this seems unnecessarily
complicated.
Other, simpler, solutions were proposed:
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/distutils-sig/2009-September/013173.html
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/distutils-sig/2009-September/013289.html
However, you pronounced yourself bdfl(!):
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/distutils-sig/2009-September/013318.html
...and decided to ignore them. Please don't do this over such an
important matter.
cheers,
Chris
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