features using wrong datatype: scalar string instead of list?

[tomashek]

I have not had the chance to see if this is an actual bug, but it looks very suspicious so I wanted to report it.

Features are represented as a list in meta.yaml:

build:
    features:
        - intel
        - vc9

..but they end up in the index.json metadata file as a scalar string. Dependencies are retained as a list in the json:

"depends": [
    "intelpython",
    "vc"
  ],
  "features": "intel vc9",

I haven't dug into the code that uses "features" to see if this is a real problem, but if they are to be treated as a list, I would think they would simply be kept as a list.

[kalefranz]

Completely agree that this was an unfortunate design decision. Really too late now to change it though.

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