Re: [Python-Dev] [Distutils] PEP 426 is now the draft spec for distribution metadata 2.0

2013-02-20 Thread PJ Eby
On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 6:42 AM, Nick Coghlan wrote: > Nothing in the PEP is particularly original - almost all of it is > either stolen from other build and packaging systems, or is designed > to provide a *discoverable* alternative to existing > setuptools/distribute/pip practices (specifically,

Re: [Python-Dev] [Distutils] PEP 426 is now the draft spec for distribution metadata 2.0

2013-02-19 Thread Nick Coghlan
On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 8:36 PM, Antoine Pitrou wrote: > Le Tue, 19 Feb 2013 10:24:15 +, > Paul Moore a écrit : >> On Tuesday, 19 February 2013, M.-A. Lemburg wrote: >> >> > >> > The only tool in wide spread use that understands part of the 1.2 >> > data is setuptools/distribute, but it can o

Re: [Python-Dev] [Distutils] PEP 426 is now the draft spec for distribution metadata 2.0

2013-02-19 Thread Antoine Pitrou
Le Tue, 19 Feb 2013 11:36:09 +0100, Antoine Pitrou a écrit : > > I think Marc-André is right that the acceptability of the standard > should be judged on the availability of (preferably standard) > implementations. If the standard isn't implemented, then perhaps it > means it's too ambitious / to

Re: [Python-Dev] [Distutils] PEP 426 is now the draft spec for distribution metadata 2.0

2013-02-19 Thread Antoine Pitrou
Le Tue, 19 Feb 2013 10:24:15 +, Paul Moore a écrit : > On Tuesday, 19 February 2013, M.-A. Lemburg wrote: > > > > > The only tool in wide spread use that understands part of the 1.2 > > data is setuptools/distribute, but it can only understand the > > Requires-Dist field of that version of th

Re: [Python-Dev] [Distutils] PEP 426 is now the draft spec for distribution metadata 2.0

2013-02-19 Thread Paul Moore
On Tuesday, 19 February 2013, M.-A. Lemburg wrote: > > The only tool in wide spread use that understands part of the 1.2 data > is setuptools/distribute, but it can only understand the Requires-Dist > field of that version of the spec (only because the 1.1 Requires field was > deprecated) and inte