[Distutils] Deprecate and Block requires/provides

[Donald Stufft]

On Oct 17, 2013, at 11:29 AM, Jim Fulton <jim at zope.com> wrote:

> I'm 92% sure it was intended to support automated dependency management,
> but then setuptools went in a different (better) direction.

Hmm, that's entirely possible! I was around back then so i'm taking the intent from
the PEP.

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