June 24, 2006
11:51 a.m.
At 03:04 AM 6/24/2006 -0400, Jorge Vargas wrote:
but What I want to accomplish is having dependancies on some packages. for example my project will have diferent database backends so I want to depend on pysqlite or mysql-python depending on which the user wants as his/her backend. I'm going to have lots of diferent backends, even some that are not databases, so this will be a crutial thing for me or I'll end up with very big dist files per release, which will mostly be waste if the user never uses them.
is something like this possible with setuptools now?
Yes: http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/setuptools#declaring-extras