I am using setuptools to maintain some plugins I wrote for a python based protein viewer. I would like to have another plugin that simply checks for updates for the currently installed plugins. Code may help, so basically I would like to run:
from setuptools.command import easy_install easy_install.main('-U MyPlugin'.split())
This would work fine if I registered my plugins on Pypi, but just trust me that I shouldn't be pushing this junk up there yet. I saw the "dependency_links" option, and that is close to what I want. However, I would also like easy_install to check for an update to "MyPlugin" there as well.
When issuing an "--upgrade" option, can the "download_url" be checked automatically, or is there an existing way I can get a handle on that "download_url" variable to pass to easy_install? Any advice would be appreciated.
Thanks, Charlie