On May 24, 2013, at 12:31 PM, "M.-A. Lemburg" <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 24.05.2013 18:18, Donald Stufft wrote: >> >> On May 24, 2013, at 12:14 PM, "M.-A. Lemburg" <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> On 24.05.2013 17:21, Vinay Sajip 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. >>> >>> It would be nice to have the PKG-INFO readily available on the /simple/ >>> index pages. >>> >>> This contains the Requires header as well. >> >> The requires headers in the PKG-INFO are practically worthless. > > Hmm, looking at a few PKG-INFO entries for Zope packages, I guess you're > right. Looks like setuptools forgets to add the header to the PKG-INFO. > >>> At the moment, PKG-INFO is only available on the PyPI edit pages >>> for packages you own, even though access is possible without >>> login: >>> >>> https://pypi.python.org/pypi?name=egenix-mx-base&version=3.2.6&:action=display_pkginfo > > It does appear in our PKG-INFO entries: > > https://pypi.python.org/pypi?name=egenix-mxodbc&version=3.2.3&:action=display_pkginfo > > so I guess setuptools isn't behaving quite right in this respect. > > -- > Marc-Andre Lemburg > eGenix.com > > Professional Python Services directly from the Source (#1, May 24 2013) >>>> Python Projects, Consulting and Support ... http://www.egenix.com/ >>>> mxODBC.Zope/Plone.Database.Adapter ... http://zope.egenix.com/ >>>> mxODBC, mxDateTime, mxTextTools ... http://python.egenix.com/ > ________________________________________________________________________ > 2013-07-01: EuroPython 2013, Florence, Italy ... 38 days to go > > ::::: Try our mxODBC.Connect Python Database Interface for free ! :::::: > > eGenix.com Software, Skills and Services GmbH Pastor-Loeh-Str.48 > D-40764 Langenfeld, Germany. CEO Dipl.-Math. Marc-Andre Lemburg > Registered at Amtsgericht Duesseldorf: HRB 46611 > http://www.egenix.com/company/contact/ setuptools is behaving correctly. the Requires field in the old metadata is for requiring python modules (e.g. things you can directly import). Whereas install_requires is for requiring python distributions (e.g. something you can download from PyPI). The old metadata has no provisions for python distributions. That's why the Requires field is "practically worthless". ----------------- Donald Stufft PGP: 0x6E3CBCE93372DCFA // 7C6B 7C5D 5E2B 6356 A926 F04F 6E3C BCE9 3372 DCFA
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