-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Marius Gedminas wrote: > On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 09:19:13AM -0400, Tres Seaver wrote: >> There is one more new >> argument to setup() we should consider, which might be spelled >> 'build_requires', and which would map onto the 'Requires-External' >> PKG-INFO field. > > Setuptools has a 'setup_requires' argument to setup(). I don't know if > the semantics of that one are similar to your proposed 'build_requires'.
Nope: 'build_requires' is something Matthias Klose discussed as being useful for downstream packagers: it doesn't refer to Python distributions, but to external library / tool requriements. Tres. - -- =================================================================== Tres Seaver +1 540-429-0999 [email protected] Palladion Software "Excellence by Design" http://palladion.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFJ31Bf+gerLs4ltQ4RAmduAJwPAQftvIrNdSkImZgG469WJ45dGwCgm+Aj 4BXZ6Jo4HZDSlETKsYxrPAM= =Jqm3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
