[Distutils] setuptools: extras_require

[Ian Bicking]

Phillip J. Eby wrote:
> At 02:27 AM 7/13/2005 -0500, Ian Bicking wrote:
> 
>> I can't see any way to get extras_require to be installed, unless some
>> other package indicates an extra feature in the package that needs to be
>> supported.
>>
>> For example, if you want HTTP support in Paste, you can install
>> WSGIUtils.  But this isn't required.  How can I get WSGIUtils installed?
> 
> 
> Assuming the "extra" in Paste is "HTTP", you would use:
> 
>     easy_install Paste[HTTP]
> 
> Even if Paste itself is already installed, this will ensure that 
> anything in extras_require['HTTP'] gets installed too.

How can I do this if I have an unpacked version of Paste on disk?  I can 
install that with "easy_install.py .", but I can't do "easy_install.py 
.[HTTP]".  Is there a way to install the dependencies with setup.py? 
"python setup.py depends" doesn't do much of anything.

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