[Catalog-sig] Python Version support in PyPI

[Noah Kantrowitz]

On Feb 27, 2013, at 11:59 AM, Monty Taylor wrote:

> 
> 
> On 02/27/2013 02:46 PM, Daniel Holth wrote:
>> The Classifier: Python ... is another tag that could be more likely to
>> tell you what you want to know. Hopefully the new, broken package
>> advertises Classifier: Python 3 only. In theory I don't like the idea
>> of using the Trove classifiers for anything automatic, but at least
>> people tend to specify them.
> 
> Yeah - it's not so much that _I_ want to use something to know - it's
> more that I want pip to not try to install python3-only packages when
> I'm clearly running in python2. The reverse should also be true of course.
> 
> I know we all want the next-gen package tools to solve our problems, but
> waiting on them doesn't really seem to be so workable ... how opposed
> would people be to adding some logic in to pip to be helpful with this?

As long as it uses the right metadata I'm sure they would be cool with it, but thats a better question for the pip pull-req queue :)

--Noah

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