> > > Yes to be specific the only thing I would personally be OK with adding to > the > pip core is something that added the appropiate hooks to let some other > thing > provide the platform specific mechanisms. I'm still not sure it's worth the > effort over the simpler idea of just providing a build_hint metadata that > authors can use to say "Hey you need to isntall libxml2 for this thing" or > whatever. >
I'd like to see us use PEP459 extensions to hold distro-specific dependencies. (as mentioned here: https://bitbucket.org/pypa/pypi-metadata-formats/issue/16/external-requirements ) I'm imagining a cross-distro community-maintained project that holds all the json dependency data for all of pypi. and then tooling could build up around that?
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