On Fri, 16 Oct 2009 15:54:29 +0200, Tarek Ziadé <ziade.tarek@gmail.com> wrote:
But what really matters at the end is to provide a new Metadata format where these marker are present, so any consumer can play with them (and Distutils provide an API to play with them : the DistributionMetadata class)
I'm fine with this. Although I suggest that we could clean up the language a bit using some of the conditional compound ideas from what I'm working on.
So please, have a look at the new section I've added here with the syntax I am proposing :
http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0390/#impact-on-pkg-info-generation-and-p...
Metadata-Version: 1.2 Name: distribute Version: 0.6.4 ... Requires: pywin32, bar > 1.0; sys_platform == 'win32' Requires: foo; os_machine == 'i386' Requires: bar; python_version == '2.4' or python_version == '2.5' Requires: baz; 'linux' in sys_platform Obsoletes = pywin31; sys_platform == 'win32' ... Classifier: Development Status :: 5 - Production/Stable Classifier: Intended Audience :: Developers Classifier: License :: OSI Approved :: Python Software Foundation License something like this (as best I can read the other format): Metadata-Version: 1.2 Name: distribute Version: 0.6.4 ... Requires: (windows) pywin32, bar > 1.0 Requires: (linux-suse-kde-64) foo Requires: (python < 2.5) bar Requires: (linux) baz Obsoletes = (windows) pywin31 ... Classifier: Development Status :: 5 - Production/Stable Classifier: Intended Audience :: Developers Classifier: License :: OSI Approved :: Python Software Foundation License Regards David