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Darren Dale wrote: > Right, I am somewhat familiar with requirements files. I guess I have > not been keeping up closely enough with pip development recently. Last > I checked, pip supported dependencies via requirements files (which > are good for setting up applications in isolated environments) but not > recursively and not without a requirements file like easy_install does This was a misunderstanding. Pip has done recursive dependency fetching based on install_requires metadata for years; at least as long as its been named pip, AFAIK. Requirements files have always been an optional feature. > One last question: will pip support package extras? The Enthought Tool > Suite (for example) makes extensive use of these, and there are many > projects in our community that build on ETS. A while back there was > some discussion of dropping this feature in pip, which could make it > difficult for some projects to embrace distribute/pip. Sorry, I don't know anything about the status of extras in pip. Carl -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkuqQEwACgkQ1j/fhc23WECJ/gCghCGiPgoP3/ZVyU4V7+F25vfA IL0AnjzufpWl/saNJaZT+aviJBg9HkgB =fVzB -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
