At 03:21 PM 9/22/2009 +0200, Tarek Ziadé wrote:

Hello Here's a wrapup of the Distutils-SIG discussion we had on the "static metadata" topic. I realize that it's a good thing to send in. python-dev such wrapup on distutils design decisions, to keep everyone informed and get more feedback when required

The above implies that a consensus was reached on this topic; you should perhaps at least note that in this case it actually means that you just terminated the discussion and pronounced your choice, just as a simpler solution for dynamic dependencies (proposed by Sridhar) was beginning to gain some support.