[Distutils] Merging forks

[Donald Stufft]

On Jun 11, 2013, at 4:46 AM, Paul Moore <p.f.moore at gmail.com> wrote:

> Something prompted by the setuptools merge, and its impact on pip. Does Python's packaging metadata need a way of declaring in a package that it is a merge of (two or more) other packages?
> 
> Obviously this is a rare scenario, but it's painful when it occurs (how can a tool know that setuptools 0.7 is a later version of distribute than 0.6.36?)
> 
> Paul
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