[Python-Dev] Edits to Metadata 1.2 to add extras (optional dependencies)

[Nick Coghlan]

On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 12:53 AM, Donald Stufft <donald.stufft at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tuesday, August 28, 2012 at 10:43 AM, "Martin v. Löwis" wrote:
>
> I'm happy for PyPI to host such a registry. A specificaion for the
> registry should be part of the PEP for the 1.3 format, but I would
> propose this structure (without having researched in detail what
> other registries feature, but with a rough idea what IANA registries
> typically include):
>
> PyPI packages itself could serve as a registry, but I like the idea of
> a separate registry better in many ways because it lets you divorce
> the namespace from the package. The question being would this
> be a x-registered-name type system or a registered-namespace-*
> type system?

Please, don't. The software and infrastructure to run PyPI exists.
Some level of namespacing makes sense to separate out extension
management to different groups of people, but creating a whole
management application just for this would be serious overkill.

Cheers,
Nick.

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