Tres Seaver wrote:
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> Jim Fulton wrote:
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>> These downsides are, in practice, pretty minor. My main objection is
>> that I don't like encouraging people to be sloppy about
>> dependencies. The counter argument, of course, is that the standard
>> library is an implicit dependency and we are behaving as if
>> setuptools is part of the standard library.
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> Perhaps we need a lint-like utility ('candle.py', perhaps :) which
> examines a given egg, looking for issues such as imports from packages
> which are not in a path synthesized from the egg's dependencies?
That'd be useful. It'd be especially useful if it were integrated into
setuptools, as that way it's a bit more likely people will actually use it.
Regards,
Martijn
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