[Distutils] RFC: Updating PEP 345

[Tarek Ziadé]

Jim started a branch during Pycon, maybe you can push your work over
there for review here ?

Also, I am wondering if we shouldn't merge it with PEP 376, where we
might want to add a REQUIRES file
into the egg.info structure, besides the PKG-INFO file.

Cheers
Tarek


On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 6:55 PM, Tres Seaver <tseaver at palladion.com> wrote:
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> I haven't heard back from Richard Jones, who is the PEP owner, but have
> perpared to update PEP 345[1] in line with what to be the majority view
> (at PyCon) for adding "distribution-level" dependency metadata (as
> opposed to importable package / module dependencies) to the PKG-INFO file.
>
> I have backed off on the notion of overloading 'Requires:' / 'Provides:'
> / 'Obsoletes:', following Jim's notion of deprecating them in favor of
> new fields.  I named them 'Requires-Dist:', 'Provides-Dist:', and
> 'Obsoletes-Dist'.
>
> "Stock" distutils should probably spell the arguments to
> distutils.core.setup predictably:  'requires_dist', 'provides_dist',
> 'obsoletes_dist'.  setuptools can treat 'install_requires' as an
> undeprecated alias for 'requires_dist'.
>
>
> [1] http://svn.python.org/view/peps/trunk/pep-0345.txt?view=markup
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>
> Tres.
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