[Distutils] [Bulk] Re: Dependencies

[Vincenzo Di Massa]

Alle 21:08, sabato 13 agosto 2005, Phillip J. Eby ha scritto:
> At 06:57 PM 8/13/2005 +0200, Vincenzo Di Massa wrote:
> >Hi,
> >Are dependencies taken into account inside PyPI records?
> 
> No.
> 
> >I mean both build dependencies and run dependencies.
> 
> Neither.
> 
> 
> >If yes where can I find more info? How do setuptools manage it, how can I 
> >access this info?
> 
> Setuptools lets you declare this information in the setup script; see the 
> setuptools.txt file for details.  The "egg_info" command writes the data to 
> a file, that is then read by other commands and also put into the built 
> egg's metadata.
> 
> This information isn't something really suitable for PyPI, because the 
> setup script is allowed to compute the information dynamically.  (Some 
> dependencies might apply only to a particular platform, for example.)

Is there a a way(API) to interact with this information?
My goal would be creating a database of correspondences between setuptools/PyPI(one day) dependency and debian package names.
The software I am coding could be used by other packaging systems(rpm?) too. To create a package of a python module (immagine an egg inside a deb or rpm) 
one could just use setuptools and my code. But I need to resolve dependencies: this is why I'll create a database of correspondences.

Ciao
Vincenzo

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