[Distutils] Deprecate and Block requires/provides

[Michael Foord]

On 17 October 2013 04:01, Donald Stufft <donald at stufft.io> wrote:

> As many are aware distutils has the "requires" field and such. These
> fields are designed to list something you *import* not something you
> install from PyPI. I believe these fields to be generally useless,
> supported
> by the fact distutils2 deprecated them, and outright user hostile. Users
> do not tend to realize that these aren't PyPI distributions and attempt to
> use them for that case. This generally "works" in that it will show up on
> PyPI but it will fail as soon as a distribution contains a character like
> -.
>
> So what I would like to do is "remove" these fields. This would consist
> of modifying PyPI to return an error code if they are included and hiding
> the existing data in the UX. It might at a future time also consist of
> removing
> the data from the DB all together.
>
> What do people think?
>
>

+1 to hiding them in the PyPI UI.

-1 to breaking setup.py upload / register !

Michael


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