On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 7:50 AM, Darren Dale <dsdal...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 6:26 AM, Tarek Ziadé <ziade.ta...@gmail.com> wrote: >> The open question is: do we want to include a full installer that >> takes care of installing / removing dependencies as well ? >> >> I think not. Pip already provides this feature on the top of distutils >> (and distutils2 later I guess) and is not hard to install on the top >> of Python. > > Is pip able to determine and install dependencies recursively, like > easy_install does? Or is it up to the requested package to it specify > its dependencies (and its dependencies dependencies) in a pip > requirements file that is distributed separately? >
My experience is that only `install_requires` is needed (unless you want to create app bundles AFAICR) , but in practice I've noticed that *some* easy_installable packages are not pip-able (though I had no time to figure out why :-/ ) -- Regards, Olemis. Blog ES: http://simelo-es.blogspot.com/ Blog EN: http://simelo-en.blogspot.com/ Featured article: On adding Hessian (RPC) support for Trac - http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/simelo-en/~3/Vit6dRudChU/on-adding-hessian-rpc-support-for-trac.html _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
