[Distutils] FINAL DRAFT: Dependency specifier PEP

[Antoine Pitrou]

On Wed, 18 Nov 2015 06:32:35 +1300
Robert Collins <robertc at robertcollins.net> wrote:
> >
> > The only place where URIs are used seem to be the "urlspec" rule, and
> > probably you can accept any opaque string there.
> 
> Uhm, why are you making this suggestion? What problem will we solve by
> using a proxy rule?

Making the PEP simpler, making implementations simpler, avoiding bugs
in implementations which may otherwise try to implement full URI
matching, avoiding having to issue a PEP update whenever the IETF
updates the definition.

These are the four I can think about, anyway :-)

Regards

Antoine.