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

[Donald Stufft]

On Tuesday, August 28, 2012 at 11:05 AM, Nick Coghlan wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 12:53 AM, Donald Stufft <donald.stufft at gmail.com (mailto:donald.stufft at gmail.com)> wrote:
> 
> 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.
> 
How do you deal with a PyPI package foo which wants a
bar-test value (foo-bar-test), and a PyPI package foo-bar
with a value test (foo-bar-test). PyPI packages allow too much
in the way of names to be able to fully namespace it without collisions.

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