[Distutils] RFC: Updating PEP 345

[Jim Fulton]

On Apr 11, 2009, at 10:09 AM, Tarek Ziadé wrote:

> On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 3:38 PM, Tarek Ziadé <ziade.tarek at gmail.com>  
> wrote:
>>
>> Right, sounds like a good practice.
>>
>> So what shall we do for install_requires ?
>>
>> I'd be in favor of :
>>
>> - keeping the new PKG-INFO Tres proposed
>> - maintaining both setup() arguments (like license and licence)
>> - documenting the new argument
>> - adding the warning in the 'check' command
>>
>
> (unless everyone is fine with having a install_requires argument and a
> different PKG-INFO field)


I'd prefer that to having 2 arguments that mean the same thing.

fwiw, I'd also prefer calling the PKG-INFO field Install-Requires.

Jim

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Jim Fulton
Zope Corporation