[Twisted-Python] Twisted 16.7.0rc1 Release Candidate Announcement

[Glyph Lefkowitz]

> On Jan 3, 2017, at 7:58 AM, Terekhov, Mikhail <termim at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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.

Please feel free to submit a PR to automat to do this.  There's lots of descriptive material here: <https://github.com/glyph/automat/blob/master/README.md <https://github.com/glyph/automat/blob/master/README.md>> which you could use to update the PyPI metadata part.

-glyph

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