[Distutils] RFC: Updating PEP 345

[zooko]

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