Quoting Tarek Ziadé <[email protected]>:
On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 6:28 PM, Chris Withers
<[email protected]> wrote:
Tarek Ziadé wrote:
I think it's another issue, more related to the way easy_install or
pip works with PyPI
(using package_index.py)
I think you're missing my point: how would the package be named and/or how
would you express in static metadata, that a particular version of the
package is for postgres 8 rather than postgres 7, or 8.4 rather than 8.3?
But it's out of the scope of the static metadata to describe these
system dependencies :
the dependencies are only *python* dependencies, so the micro-language
we will provide does only concerns the Python environment.
I agree with Tarek that the system dependency handling is not
something that should be dealt with in the python package metadata.
The best thing that can be hoped for is that packages which rely on a
specific version of a system dependency will throw a descriptive error
indicating this particular problem. The MySQL_python project is one
example of a project that is already doing this, since they throw an
ImportError with a descriptive title in this case.
-Chris
cheers,
Chris
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