[Distutils] Deprecate and Block requires/provides

[Donald Stufft]

On Oct 17, 2013, at 6:50 PM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:

> And to me. A general "Evolution of PyPI APIs" process PEP could be a very helpful thing to avoid having to rehash this discussion for every change :)
> 
PEPapolza
> Given that PyPI doesn't have releases as such, perhaps we could tie this to the feature release cadence of pip? And officially recommend twine as the upload tool over using distutils directly? (Is twine ready for that at this point?)
> 
Possibly, but I think it probably makes more sense to just do date based. Individual proposals can include special casings that depend on a release of a piece of tooling if it makes sense for that proposal.
> The only other thing I would add is that when previous output is /dev/null'ed we may want to have a placeholder for a while with a link to an explanation for the removal.
> 
A placeholder where? On the PyPI UX or something?

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