Donald Stufft <donald <at> stufft.io> writes: > Most packages also have an egg-info inside of them you can parse.
I don't know how accurate that information is - IIRC pip always runs egg-info on downloaded archives. I presume this is to get the correct dependencies which are relevant to the installation system. The red-dove metadata is not always completely accurate since it depends on the specific environment the metadata scan runs in (most issues come from dependencies which differ according to Python version, but there could be OS-specific dependencies too which I'm not capturing). I view this automatically generated metadata as a stop-gap until better metadata comes along; I needed to experiment with metadata formats and migration approaches with real data. No doubt there will be tools to help migrate setup.py metadata to alternative metadata formats as my code currently does, by which I mean tools that users can run on their own machines so I can get some sleep at night :-) Regards, Vinay Sajip _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
