[Distutils] PEP440 and fork versioning

[Marcus Smith]

I'm noticing the mention of forks in PEP426 for "provides".
so theoretically, `pkg_resources.WorkingSet.resolve` would be updated at
some point to account for "provides" in PEP426, and this feature would be
surfaced as a setup keyword for users to use in their fork projects.


On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 10:53 AM, Marcus Smith <qwcode at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm wondering if PEP440 should recommend how to version forks? It's fairly
> common to fork dependencies temporarily until the change can be released
> upstream.
>
> Ideally, you want to version a fork (and keep the same name) so that it
> fulfills the requirement, but be obvious that it's a fork.
>
> Although pip allows overriding requirement consistency,  consistency is
> preferred, and needed in cases where a `pkg_resources.require` enforces it
> in a console script.
>
> As it is now, the "post-release" scheme works for this, but it's not the
> intended use case.
>
> Marcus
>
>
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