On Tue, 22 Sep 2009 15:48:08 -0700, Chris Withers <ch...@simplistix.co.uk>
wrote:
Since the language summit at PyCon 2009 various committers, including
me, have been encouraging Tarek to act as distutils dictator to get
things finished as we all know people are prone to bikeshedding that
would kill any forward momentum we have towards improving the
packaging situation.
...except that this isn't bikeshedding. Use of that term just to stifle
productive discussion is also rude.
As I see it, the choice of syntax *as such* is an issue of bikeshedding
except that the choice of one syntax over the another could make it
supportive to add an useful feature in setuptools to distutils. For
instance, this syntax which I proposed -
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/distutils-sig/2009-September/013289.html
- will make us think about adding install_requires/extra_requires to
distutils *in addition to* the conditional metadata .. rather than
inventing a new syntax to support only conditional metadata.
-srid
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