New draft up at https://bitbucket.org/dholth/python-peps/changeset/537e83bd4068
Adds Provides-Extra: (with longer explanation), Setup-Requires-Dist:
(full text below)
Setup-Requires-Dist lives because it makes sense to list packages only
needed for setup.py to run before install is possible.
The
>>> Under a scheme like this one would have to list that dependency under
>>> Requires-Dist twice: with and without the 'extra' marker. I might
>>> still prefer extending the metadata format to add a
>>> Setup-Requires-Dist or the like.
> The difference is that setup/build dependencies generally
On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 4:37 PM, Daniel Holth wrote:
>>> I expect to see a lot of bugs in packages that require some of their
>>> build-time dependencies at run time.
>>
>> Maybe, but wouldn't that be the developer's problem? setup_requires
>> has the same issue--it does not install the setup requ
>> I expect to see a lot of bugs in packages that require some of their
>> build-time dependencies at run time.
>
> Maybe, but wouldn't that be the developer's problem? setup_requires
> has the same issue--it does not install the setup requirements into
> site-packages. Instead it just does an eg
On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 1:27 PM, Daniel Holth wrote:
>> Though in the interest of not having too many different ways to do a
>> similar thing, could this not also be used for tests/docs? Perhaps
>> even "Provides-Extra: tests", and "Provides-Extra: docs" should be
>> reserved names as you suggeste
> Though in the interest of not having too many different ways to do a
> similar thing, could this not also be used for tests/docs? Perhaps
> even "Provides-Extra: tests", and "Provides-Extra: docs" should be
> reserved names as you suggested. I envision something like:
...
> Provides-Extra: se
On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 11:20 AM, Daniel Holth wrote:
> It is exactly the same as setuptools' "extras" feature, and I didn't
> quote the entire edit on-list. Also, there is a reference
> implementation at https://bitbucket.org/dholth/distribute/ in the
> DistInfoDistribution class.
>
> The 'test' a
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On 07/09/2012 11:13 AM, Tres Seaver wrote:
>
> New submission from Tres Seaver :
>
> A bare distutils install of a package with 'headers' passed to
> 'setup()' dispatches to 'install_headers', which copies the exported
> header files into the system
New submission from Tres Seaver :
A bare distutils install of a package with 'headers' passed to 'setup()'
dispatches to 'install_headers', which copies the exported header files
into the system include path.
'easy_install' bypasses the distutils 'install()' when doing a normal
egg install, and
