[Distutils] RFC: PEP 566 - Metadata for Python Software Packages 1.3

[Nathaniel Smith]

On Dec 5, 2017 08:42, "Dustin Ingram" <dustin.ingram at gmail.com> wrote:


Provides-Extra (optional, multiple use)
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A string containing the name of an optional feature. Must be a valid Python
identifier. May be used to make a dependency conditional on whether the
optional feature has been requested.

This introduction of this field allows packge installation tools (such as
``pip``) to determine which extras are provided by a given package, and so
that
package publication tools (such as ``twine``) can check for issues with
environment markers which use extras.


I haven't followed this so sorry if this is an annoying comment, but having
read this description I still don't really understand what Provides-Extra
is doing. Don't packages already include extra information? What problem
motivated this?

-n
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