Hanno Schlichting wrote:
On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 7:31 PM, Tres Seaver <tsea...@palladion.com> wrote:
Why? Nobody will check / enforce / understand what 'install_requires'
even means except setuptools / distribute.
To quote Toshio Kuratomi:
It's nice for people creating system packages when you specify all of the
packages that your runtime depends on in setup.py.
So apparently there are others who read and value this information.
I'd put money on there being no packaging system that parses
requirements sections out of a setup.py other that setuptools/distribute...
Chris
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