On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 02:31:34AM +0100, "Martin v. L?wis" wrote:
Tools which will need this data, in order to do their work. Hence, the reason for standardizing the data, instead of the tool(s).
If there was a chance that the infrastructure being developed actually helps these tools, *that* would be a reasonable goal, IMO.
However, I'm extremely skeptical that this can ever succeed to the degree that whoever provides RPMs, .debs, or MSI files will actually use such data, as they will find that the data are incomplete, and they have to redo all of it, anyway.
I've found it extremely useful to have access to dependency information when making Debian packages automagically out of setuptools tarballs. It's not easy or robust to access/use it, but for my simple pure python packages, it's been working wonderfully. -- Brian Sutherland