[Distutils] [RFC] PEP 345 and PEP 386 updates

[Tarek Ziadé]

On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 10:58 AM, David Cournapeau
<david at ar.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp> wrote:
> Tarek Ziadé wrote:
>> The micro-language, though, is about the metadata fields like "requires"
>>
>> So do you have a use case where a Python distribution needs to use "64
>> bit (the machine)"
>>
>
> Given the difficulty, I think such a field should only be added once
> python itself has a method to reliably detect windows 64, to avoid any
> inconsistencies.

Ok then. Notice that introducing new variables afterwards in the
micro-language will be easy


Tarek