On May 24, 2013, at 11:21 AM, Vinay Sajip <vinay_sa...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> 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. That information is typically accurate but it's for the system that generated the package. > > 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 - Distutils-SIG@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig ----------------- Donald Stufft PGP: 0x6E3CBCE93372DCFA // 7C6B 7C5D 5E2B 6356 A926 F04F 6E3C BCE9 3372 DCFA
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