Re: [Distutils] distlib updated with locators API

2012-10-15 Thread Daniel Holth
On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 8:16 PM, Vinay Sajip vinay_sa...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: There's plenty more work to do - if there's mileage in this idea, instead of returning Metadata and lists of dicts, Distribution instances can be returned which can be queried for dependencies in a more natural way. At

Re: [Distutils] distlib updated with locators API

2012-10-15 Thread Vinay Sajip
Daniel Holth dholth at gmail.com writes: When you are using setuptools, setup.py can be used to generate declarative metadata with the command python setup.py egg_info. You can add --egg-base dir to put the static metadata in a different directory. Setuptools even makes it easy to add new

Re: [Distutils] distlib updated with locators API

2012-10-15 Thread Daniel Holth
On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 2:41 PM, Vinay Sajip vinay_sa...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: Daniel Holth dholth at gmail.com writes: When you are using setuptools, setup.py can be used to generate declarative metadata with the command python setup.py egg_info. You can add --egg-base dir to put the static