[Distutils] Deprecate and Block requires/provides

[Jim Fulton]

On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 11:20 AM, Michael Foord <fuzzyman at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On 17 October 2013 11:56, Donald Stufft <donald at stufft.io> wrote:
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>> Arguably it's already broken. I've had to explain to a number of people
>> that it won't cause their dependencies to install. I think its way more user
>> friendly to tell them up front then to confuse them when it doesn't work or
>> when it appears to work but they get an error from a -
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> You're proposing replacing "arguably broken" (by some definition)

Is there any reason to think that it ever actually worked in any way?

Jim

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