Re: [Distutils] PEP440: foo-X.Y.Z does not satisfy fooX.Y?

2014-12-24 Thread Nick Coghlan
On 24 Dec 2014 05:27, Marcus Smith qwc...@gmail.com wrote: just post edit suggestions here? https://bitbucket.org/pypa/pypi-metadata-formats is not up to date anymore some other location? It *should* be being kept in sync with the published versions, but Donald and I have just been working

Re: [Distutils] PEP440: foo-X.Y.Z does not satisfy fooX.Y?

2014-12-24 Thread Marcus Smith
It *should* be being kept in sync with the published versions, but Donald and I have just been working directly in the main PEP repo recently. Hence my suggestion of moving it to GitHub - it's more likely to be kept up to date there, and, unlike the master PEP repo, I'm happy to host the

Re: [Distutils] Role of setuptools and eggs in modern distributing...

2014-12-24 Thread Chris Barker
On Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 10:37 AM, Donald Stufft don...@stufft.io wrote: I’m going to attempt to read between the lines here a little bit. Thank you -- you did an excellent job of capturing the gestalt of my confusion ! The “egg” name is heavily overloaded in setuptools. It is used all over

Re: [Distutils] Role of setuptools and eggs in modern distributing...

2014-12-24 Thread Marcus Smith
A note about terminology here (both in this email and The Packaging User Guide) -- it seems to me that install_requires is about requirements for a package not a project, well, read through the PyPUG glossary: https://packaging.python.org/en/latest/glossary.html a project is anything with