[Python-Dev] no consensus on static metadata (original) (raw)

Tarek Ziadé ziade.tarek at gmail.com
Fri Oct 9 17:45:31 CEST 2009

On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 5:32 PM, Chris Withers <chris at simplistix.co.uk> wrote:

So I am adding this in Distutils for 2.7. NB: There was no consensus on this "micro-language" on distutils-sig. While I suspect I don't care as none of my packages rely on anything other than other python packages, others did care, and I found the syntax Tarek was proposing pretty clumsy.

Please no bikeshedding again on the syntax. "consensus" doesn't mean that you agreed on the syntax.

As I said to MAL, a PEP will be written with the precise syntax, and you will be able to make your voice heard on Distutils-SIG, even participate to it.

But at the end, a syntax will be added.

Does the PEP386 or the changes you're proposing for PEP314 cater for the extrarequires stuff in setuptools? I know I use that quite heavily and I'm not the only one...

Let's open a thread on Distutils-SIG about PEP 314 planned changes.

Tarek.

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