[Python-Dev] Proposing PEP 345 : Metadata for Python Software Packages 1.2 (original) (raw)

Lennart Regebro regebro at gmail.com
Mon Dec 28 12:02:05 CET 2009

On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 11:54, "Martin v. Löwis" <martin at v.loewis.de> wrote:

This == operator is fairly common in Debian. For example, the apache2 package installed on my system specifies

Oh, absolutely, but that's when you specify interdependencies between packages. Nobody makes a Python package for generic use and say "you should only use this with Python 2.5.0 and nothing else". Specifying zope.interfaces 1.2.3 for zope.component 1.2.3 makes a lot of sense, but specifying only Python 2.5.0?

-1. I would prefer if there is only a single syntax for specifying version dependencies, independent of what metadata field they appear in.

That is admittedly a good argument.

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