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

Ben Finney ben+python at benfinney.id.au
Tue Dec 29 02:00:50 CET 2009

David Lyon <david.lyon at preisshare.net> writes:

The counter argument for 'cloning' the linux packaging system is that most of the representations come from a C perspective. Because of the fact that Linux is predominantly a C product.

Since Python isn't C, and doesn't come from C, then one could argue that using short-hand or high level notation is more in keeping with the character of python.

Even if that were true (and it's not at all clear that “Python does not come from C”), that's a classic “not invented here” (NIH) argument. NIH is widely regarded as a very poor reason to reject something that works.

The dependency declarations are not Python language syntax, and there is no need to consider Python language syntax in defining them.

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