12 Apr
2009
12 Apr
'09
11:41 a.m.
On Apr 11, 2009, at 8:13 AM, Jim Fulton wrote:
fwiw, I'd also prefer calling the PKG-INFO field Install-Requires.
+1 from me. I was just browsing pypi, and there seem to be many tools out there which are designed to work with the current egg metadata. The fewer unnecessary name-changes we impose, the more likely the authors of all those tools will update their tools to interoperate with the new Distutils. Speaking of which, the proposed 'build_requires' seems to be somewhat similar to setuptools's 'setup_requires'. The difference seems to be that 'build_requires' is intended for non-Python tools and 'setup_requires' currently works only for Python packages ("distributions"). Regards, Zooko