On Wed, Feb 10, 2016 at 5:38 AM, Petr Viktorin <pvikt...@redhat.com> wrote: > On 02/09/2016 08:26 PM, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote: >> The scheme with automatic dependency generation could be implemented >> gradually, by introducing the automatic provides and dependencies >> generators, without removing current manual provides. Then when the >> generated dependencies seem to be right, removing manual dependencies. >> >> Automatic dependency generation would benefit the whole ecosystem of >> Python packages in Fedora. > > It would. It's also practically impossible to write such generators > correctly. (Please prove me wrong!) > > It's even harder to write such generators for the stdlib than external > libraries, because Python's built-in types assume that stdlib there. For > example, str.encode() needs the encoding modules, and there's no import > statement to analyze. >
I hope that it's not impossible to write such generators correctly. That said, it would really help if upstream Python would change things up a bit so that the stdlib declares what modules it provides, and that the modules can be declared in the requires for eggs and wheels. That would make it much easier to make generators that can account for stdlib stuff. -- 真実はいつも一つ！/ Always, there's only one truth! -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
