On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 04:01:01PM +0100, Chris Withers wrote:
That said, I didn't see any indication of what I consider to be a critical failure in PyPI: No dependency metadata prior to downloading the package.
+1. I want to be able do list all the packages an easy_install run will download without running it. Something like the "-s" option of apt-get. In addition, I want this information to be available programmatically (ie with a good api, not something that expects to be called from the command line) to be able to use it to build dependency graphs, generate conflicts list, or simply tell me that I have requested something that is impossible. There is nothing that I hate more than easy_install failing after having half-installed a package because of a missing dependency. This is one of the reasons I am never too happy when I have to run easy_install. Gaël