[Twisted-Python] Twisted 16.7.0rc1 Release Candidate Announcement

[Terekhov, Mikhail]

On 12/29/16 08:27, Glyph Lefkowitz wrote:

>
>> On Dec 28, 2016, at 15:20, John Santos <JOHN at egh.com 
>> <mailto:JOHN at egh.com>> wrote:
>>
>> Seems to require a new Python module, Automat.
>
> Good catch, that probably should have been announced at least a little :).
>
>> (Not mentioned in the NEWS file, INSTALL, etc.)
>
> Despite the fact that it would have been good to mention this 
> particular dependency because its adoption is a new architectural 
> direction for Twisted, in /general/ we're actually planning to do less 
> communication of dependencies in this way.  Right now, we have 
> redundant listing of dependencies in a few places, but in the future, 
> setup.py (or more specifically, "packaging metadata") will be the one, 
> authoritative place that such things are listed.
>
>> I found Automat 0.3.0 (with Glyph's fingerprints on it) at PyPI, but 
>> it only exists in .whl format.
>
> Although you probably /should/ just use the wheel, the fact that there 
> was /only/ a wheel was an oversight.  I've uploaded an sdist and 
> pushed a corresponding tag (after making sure that the source files 
> all matched, of course).
>
It is probably an off topic but it would not hurt to add a more verbose 
description and a link to the sources on PyPI for the Automat package 
especially if it is so important for Twisted.
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