<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On May 24, 2013, at 11:21 AM, Vinay Sajip <<a href="mailto:vinay_sajip@yahoo.co.uk">vinay_sajip@yahoo.co.uk</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">Donald Stufft <donald <at> stufft.io> writes:<br><br><blockquote type="cite">Most packages also have an egg-info inside of them you can parse.<br></blockquote><br>I don't know how accurate that information is - IIRC pip always runs<br>egg-info on downloaded archives. I presume this is to get the correct<br>dependencies which are relevant to the installation system.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>That information is typically accurate but it's for the system that generated the package.</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><br>The red-dove metadata is not always completely accurate since it depends on<br>the specific environment the metadata scan runs in (most issues come from<br>dependencies which differ according to Python version, but there could be<br>OS-specific dependencies too which I'm not capturing). I view this<br>automatically generated metadata as a stop-gap until better metadata comes<br>along; I needed to experiment with metadata formats and migration approaches<br>with real data. No doubt there will be tools to help migrate setup.py<br>metadata to alternative metadata formats as my code currently does, by which<br>I mean tools that users can run on their own machines so I can get some<br>sleep at night :-)<br><br>Regards,<br><br>Vinay Sajip<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Distutils-SIG maillist - <a href="mailto:Distutils-SIG@python.org">Distutils-SIG@python.org</a><br><a href="http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig">http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig</a><br></blockquote></div><br><div>
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