[Python-Dev] Status of undocumented distutils features in 2.4?
Fred L. Drake, Jr.
fdrake at acm.org
Thu Oct 7 03:40:34 CEST 2004
On Wednesday 06 October 2004 07:51 pm, Phillip J. Eby wrote:
> I was looking up something in the distutils source today, and I noticed
> that there are some new, undocumented, and not quite complete features
> that were added earlier this year. Specifically, the 'requires' and
> 'provides' arguments to 'setup()', and the 'checkdep' command.
Anthony and I threw those together pretty quickly at PyCon; it's not clear
that they're useful. For Zope Corp., they won't be. We've decided that we
will not be adding __version__ assignments into the codebase, because there
lies a stupid maintenance hassle.
I have no intention of documenting that stuff myself.
> Should these be removed for 2.4?
Yes.
> It doesn't seem likely they'd be able to
> be fleshed out before the beta, especially since as far as I can recall
> they haven't been discussed on the Distutils-SIG yet, and some of the
Frankly, I have no confidence that we'll ever end up with an agreement on
something that's sufficient and still easy to use. Versioning simply isn't
any easy aspect of packaging.
> features don't seem to be in alignment with the relevant PEPs (e.g. PEP
> 262's definition of "requires" and "provides"). And, the actual current
> implementation of the dependency checking is (per the author's comments)
> "kinda hacky".
You're being generous. ;-)
It's unfortunate that PEP 262 was deferred, but that's what happens when no
one has time to work on the beast.
-Fred
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