<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>We are getting along fine too. No tool parses metadata 1.x for package management reasons and provides has existed forever with no implementation. So it is not inconveniencing anyone. I would prefer to leave it alone.</div><div><br>Daniel Holth</div><div><br>On Nov 19, 2012, at 7:49 PM, Donald Stufft <<a href="mailto:donald.stufft@gmail.com">donald.stufft@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>
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Other languages seem to get along fine without it. Even the OS
</div><div>managers which have it don't allow it to be used to masquerade</div><div>as another project, only to make generic virtual packages (e.g. "email").</div>
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<p style="color: #A0A0A8;">On Monday, November 19, 2012 at 7:43 PM, Daniel Holth wrote:</p>
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<span><div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div>Does it really have baggage? I think it is necessary, although it doesn't do favors to the implementer (and has never been implemented). How else is anyone supposed to fork or merge projects?<br><br>Daniel Holth</div><div><br>On Nov 19, 2012, at 7:37 PM, PJ Eby <<a href="mailto:pje@telecommunity.com">pje@telecommunity.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div>On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 6:53 PM, Daniel Holth <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dholth@gmail.com" target="_blank">dholth@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite"><div>
I think this PEP is a significant improvement from its predecessor. It represents features like extras (provides-extra) and build requirements (setup-requires-dist) that are in use in the Python community but cannot be represented in older versions of the format, it finally specifies a UTF-8 encoding, removes RFC 822, provides an extension mechanism, and allows the description to be placed in the document payload.<br>
</div></blockquote><div><br>Can we maybe kill Provides-Dist and its associated baggage first, though?<br></div></div><br>
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