[Distutils] "Python Package Management Sucks"

Dave Peterson dpeterson at enthought.com
Thu Oct 2 01:02:41 CEST 2008


Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
> Another idea would be to have API information stored in metadata but not
> in the package name.  That way marketing can have a big party for
> MyLib-2.0 but the API metadata has API_Revision: 32.
>   

+1.   (I think this idea has been mentioned before too.)   We should 
definitely put a requirement for an API version number in the meta-data 
PEP.   Or should it be an ABI number?


-- Dave



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