On 13/06/2012 13:20, Donald Stufft wrote:
setuptools is a non standard addition to Python packaging which
is impossible to safely extract requirements in a 100% generic
way.
I would argue setuptools is the de facto python packaging dependency
specification, which PyPI should support as a result.
Distutils2 / metadata 1.2 includes a safe, good way to specify
requirements similar to setup tools but it's not ready for primetime yet.
...except that only a fraction of packagers even know what these are,
let alone use them...
Chris
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