[Catalog-sig] Dependencies

[Tres Seaver]

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On 06/17/2012 01:02 PM, Donald Stufft wrote:
> On Sunday, June 17, 2012 at 12:24 PM, Tres Seaver wrote:

> You can avoid executing 'setup.py' by looking for 'requires.txt' in
> the egg-info directory within the sdist.
> 
>> This will only include dependencies required for the system that
>> wrote the package. It won't include dependencies required on other
>> systems (say via an if statement for windows platform).
> 
>> Hence the impossible to do it completely.

Surely it isn't perfect, but it would be correct for most packages on
PyPI today, and "close enough" to be useful even for the rest.


Tres.
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