[Distutils] .egg-info metadata

[Donald Stufft]

On Thursday, September 20, 2012 at 4:24 PM, Daniel Holth wrote:
> It's probably a style thing, but I like to distribute this information
> out-of-band. So as the author of foopackage (an application) I list
> all the requirements and their requirements and where they can be
> found, including git+http://github urls and so forth. I'm sure this
> has all been discussed to death over the last 6+ years.

For what it's worth I agree with you here. I think that setup.(py|cfg) should 
point towards abstract requirements. (I need a distribution named foo) not
concrete requirements (I need the distribution named foo from example.com).
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