[Distutils] Deprecate and Block requires/provides

[Michael Foord]

On 17 October 2013 16:23, Jim Fulton <jim at zope.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 11:20 AM, Michael Foord <fuzzyman at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > On 17 October 2013 11:56, Donald Stufft <donald at stufft.io> wrote:
> >>
> >> 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 -
> >>
> >
> > You're proposing replacing "arguably broken" (by some definition)
>
> Is there any reason to think that it ever actually worked in any way?
>
>

Package upload certainly worked, and that is what is going to be broken.

Michael


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