<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 17 October 2013 04:01, Donald Stufft <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:donald@stufft.io" target="_blank">donald@stufft.io</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">As many are aware distutils has the "requires" field and such. These<br>
fields are designed to list something you *import* not something you<br>
install from PyPI. I believe these fields to be generally useless, supported<br>
by the fact distutils2 deprecated them, and outright user hostile. Users<br>
do not tend to realize that these aren't PyPI distributions and attempt to<br>
use them for that case. This generally "works" in that it will show up on<br>
PyPI but it will fail as soon as a distribution contains a character like -.<br>
<br>
So what I would like to do is "remove" these fields. This would consist<br>
of modifying PyPI to return an error code if they are included and hiding<br>
the existing data in the UX. It might at a future time also consist of removing<br>
the data from the DB all together.<br>
<br>
What do people think?<br>
<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><div style>+1 to hiding them in the PyPI UI.</div><div style><br></div><div style>-1 to breaking setup.py upload / register !</div><div style><br></div><div style>Michael</div>
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