[Distutils] How to get list of package requirements from PyPI without downloading egg?

[Jeremy Kloth]

On Thursday 26 October 2006 1:45 pm, Phillip J. Eby wrote:
> At 01:36 PM 10/26/2006 -0600, Jeremy Kloth wrote:
> >On Thursday 26 October 2006 1:14 pm, Phillip J. Eby wrote:
> > > (Btw, do you have a documentation
> > > link?  Google doesn't turn up anything except API docs that say nothing
> > > about the PEP 314 stuff.)
> >
> >http://skew.org/~mike/4suite-docs/html/modules/Ft.Lib.DistExt.Dist.html#Di
> >st
> >
> >or (as always, "Read the source, Luke"):
> >
> >http://cvs.4suite.org/viewcvs/4Suite/Ft/Lib/DistExt/Dist.py?view=markup
>
> I'm still lost.  What are you *doing* with the requires, provides, and
> obsoletes fields, other than storing or outputting them?

Well, you asked where they were mentioned, not used ;)

> There's nothing 
> in the doc or the source linked above that actually *does* anything with
> the data that I can see.  How do you use this to find and install
> dependencies, for example?

The consumer of those fields is actually the PackageManager class:

http://cvs.4suite.org/viewcvs/4Suite/Ft/Lib/DistExt/PackageManager.py?view=markup

-- 
Jeremy Kloth
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