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Tue Sep 22 20:06:55 CEST 2009 · http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2009-September/091960.html

On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 4:02 PM, Chris Withers <chris at simplistix.co.uk> wrote:
>>    [setup:python_version == '2.4' or python_version == '2.5']
>>    requires: some_package
>
> As was brought up on the distutils list, this seems unnecessarily
> complicated.
>
> Other, simpler, solutions were proposed:
>
> http://mail.python.org/pipermail/distutils-sig/2009-September/013173.html
>
> http://mail.python.org/pipermail/distutils-sig/2009-September/013289.html
>
> However, you pronounced yourself bdfl(!):
>
> http://mail.python.org/pipermail/distutils-sig/2009-September/013318.html
>
> ...and decided to ignore them. Please don't do this over such an important
> matter.

Yes, for the syntax bikeshedding on how conditions should be expressed,
I have decided I'll be some kind of distutils dictator to end up the
endless discussions
on how they should be expressed so we can move on.

Tarek

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[Python-Dev] Distutils ML wrap-up: setup.cfg new format