On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 12:53 AM, Sridhar Ratnakumar <sridh...@activestate.com> wrote: > 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.
Please keep in mind that the original proposal is having the ability to get static metadata (metadata: PEP 314) without running any code. Your mail contains two things: - yet another way to express the conditions (that's the bikeshedding) - a setuptools mechanism located in setup.py that works with an option to build a requires.txt file when you install a package or create a binary distribution. The later is not related to what we want to do, or if it is, please refine your proposal and make it clear at Distutils-SIG. Tarek -- Tarek Ziadé | http://ziade.org | オープンソースはすごい! _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
