[Distutils] Distribution format for Python3 libraries

[Nick Coghlan]

On 19 November 2013 15:09, PJ Eby <pje at telecommunity.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 8:44 AM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
>> More accurately, it appears setuptools *does* support PEP 345 style
>> environment markers, it just isn't documented at
>> http://pythonhosted.org/setuptools/setuptools.html#declaring-dependencies
>> *sigh*
>
> That's because it's technically an experimental feature I hacked into
> 0.6c12 development shortly before the distribute merge in order to
> handle setuptools' own requirements for SSL, so that setuptools could
> ship just one platform-independent egg and still have
> platform-specific dependencies.  ;-)
>
> I think Jason et al may have since upgraded it to a supported feature,
> but last I looked I think there may have still been issues with Jython
> support for the feature.
>
> So, the lack of documentation may still be a feature rather than a bug ATM.  ;-)

A fair point :)

Regardless, it highlights the fact I need to ensure PEP 426 preserves
the legacy spellings for the markers that have dots in their names in
metadata 1.2 (https://bitbucket.org/pypa/pypi-metadata-formats/issue/12).

Cheers,
Nick.

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