[Distutils] Upcoming changes to PEP 426/440

[Donald Stufft]

On Jun 30, 2013, at 6:58 PM, Gabriel de Perthuis <g2p.code at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, 30 Jun 2013 18:52:46 -0400, Donald Stufft wrote:
>> On Jun 30, 2013, at 6:51 PM, Gabriel de Perthuis <g2p.code at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Sun, 30 Jun 2013 18:46:51 -0400, Donald Stufft wrote:
>>>> On Jun 30, 2013, at 6:39 PM, Gabriel de Perthuis <g2p.code at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> So it would prefer that dev and test be extras with well known names,
>>>>> so that dev, test, and any other extras define dependencies with a
>>>>> minimum of ambiguity and without the need for a second level of
>>>>> qualifiers.
>>>> 
>>>> "Well known names" is way more ambiguous than a top level field.
>>>> It's easy to have minor variances across various packages, "test" vs
>>>> "tests", "docs", "doc", "documentation". Both top level and "kind"
>>>> share the fact that there is a limited number of allowed names,
>>>> which makes it simple to validate that the same name is being used
>>>> everywhere (because anything outside of those limited numbers are
>>>> rejected).
>>> 
>>> These well-known names would also have some tool support.
>>> Something like `pip install-dev` would be sufficient.
>>> 
>> But when defining them, it's very easy to accidentally use "tests"
>> instead of "test".
> 
> A lint tool can warn about these names, and a PyPI server could even
> block them for new-style packages.
> 
> 
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Or use a separate field (either the name, or the aforementioned "kind" field) and remove all ambiguity from the concept and remove the need to have a lint tool or guess what the person might mean.

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Donald Stufft
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