Hello John I'll attempt to actually answer your question instead of just voicing disagreement with a current proposal about meta-data.
On Tue, Jan 05, 2010 at 10:29:45PM -0500, John Gabriele wrote: > What is currently the preferred way to specify (in your simple > setup.py file) that your distribution depends upon a couple of other > distributions? (All located at the PyPI) Currently distutils does not support this, all you can do is mention them in the README. But setuptools and distribute allow you to specify dependencies on other distributions. See http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/setuptools#declaring-dependencies for how to do this. > What is expected to be the standard way to do this in the near future? Not sure yet, but PEP 345 is laying the foundations for bringing something very similar to the current setuptools/distribute functionality into distutils. The basics will stay the same: you will be able to declare dependencies on other distributions (not the actual modules/packages they provide). Hope that helps Floris -- Debian GNU/Linux -- The Power of Freedom www.debian.org | www.gnu.org | www.kernel.org _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
