Re: [Distutils] Removing dependency_links

2013-10-29 Thread Marius Gedminas
On Sun, Oct 27, 2013 at 03:52:04PM -0700, Marcus Smith wrote: So I asked the person I know, and this is what he said, Yes, we have to use it! It's the only way to allow a package to install other packages that aren't on PyPI-- for instance, a custom fork of a library. Is there another

Re: [Distutils] Removing dependency_links

2013-10-29 Thread Donald Stufft
On Oct 29, 2013, at 5:45 AM, Marius Gedminas mar...@pov.lt wrote: On Sun, Oct 27, 2013 at 03:52:04PM -0700, Marcus Smith wrote: So I asked the person I know, and this is what he said, Yes, we have to use it! It's the only way to allow a package to install other packages that aren't on

Re: [Distutils] Removing dependency_links

2013-10-29 Thread Fred Drake
On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 5:45 AM, Marius Gedminas mar...@pov.lt wrote: Specifying dependency_links in random packages' setup.py's is a nuisance and I would rather it went away. I always turn it off by specifying allow-hosts = *.python.org in buildout.cfg Some packages indexed on PyPI have