On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 8:28 AM, David Cournapeau <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I am working on a new packaging solution, and I want to convert > existing setup.py. I noticed that the install_requires as used by > setuptools is not put into PKG-INFO as requires. Is this expected ?
Yes because it is not part of the standard, so setuptools is putting this in "requires.txt" which could be considered as an extension to the metadata. PEP 345 will include a new field that can replace requires.txt. > What is the difference between requires and require_install ? What > happens when both have different values ? What are those names ? See http://packages.python.org/distribute/setuptools.html#new-and-changed-setup-keywords for the list of new keywords introduced by Setuptools (+ a few more by Distribute) > cheers, > > David > _______________________________________________ > Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig > -- Tarek Ziadé | http://ziade.org _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
