The distro repos are centrally managed, too. Try getting setuptools to provide a virtual package just because you want to fork.. and then update the dependent packages? Daniel Holth On Nov 19, 2012, at 7:49 PM, Donald Stufft <donald.stufft at gmail.com> wrote: > Other languages seem to get along fine without it. Even the OS > managers which have it don't allow it to be used to masquerade > as another project, only to make generic virtual packages (e.g. "email"). > On Monday, November 19, 2012 at 7:43 PM, Daniel Holth wrote: > >> Does it really have baggage? I think it is necessary, although it doesn't do favors to the implementer (and has never been implemented). How else is anyone supposed to fork or merge projects? >> >> Daniel Holth >> >> On Nov 19, 2012, at 7:37 PM, PJ Eby <pje at telecommunity.com> wrote: >> >>> On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 6:53 PM, Daniel Holth <dholth at gmail.com> wrote: >>>> I think this PEP is a significant improvement from its predecessor. It represents features like extras (provides-extra) and build requirements (setup-requires-dist) that are in use in the Python community but cannot be represented in older versions of the format, it finally specifies a UTF-8 encoding, removes RFC 822, provides an extension mechanism, and allows the description to be placed in the document payload. >>> >>> Can we maybe kill Provides-Dist and its associated baggage first, though? >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Python-Dev mailing list >> Python-Dev at python.org >> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev >> Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/donald.stufft%40gmail.com > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/attachments/20121119/560ea2e7/attachment.html>
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