[Distutils] .egg-info metadata

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Fri Sep 21 06:24:55 CEST 2012


On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 1:58 PM, PJ Eby <pje at telecommunity.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 10:51 PM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 12:08 PM, Donald Stufft <donald.stufft at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Maybe that's just me though.
>>
>> Nope, it's "In the face of ambiguity, refuse the temptation to guess"
>> applied to dependency metadata.
>
> How are dependency links guessing anything?

What are they a link to? What OSes will it run on? How do you install
them? As you soon as you step outside the defined dependency
framework, it's all guesswork.

Cheers,
Nick.

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Nick Coghlan   |   ncoghlan at gmail.com   |   Brisbane, Australia


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