[Distutils] setuptools dependency_links in dependent packages

[Fred Drake]

On Nov 26, 2007, at 11:40 AM, Kevin Dangoor wrote:
> That package depends on zc.ssl. zc.ssl has the following in setup.py:
>
> dependency_links = ['http://download.zope.org/distribution/'],
...
> I'd call that a bug, because zc.authorizedotnet should not need to  
> know that one of its required packages has a special home for its  
> code.


Are you suggesting that any use of dependency_links is a bug?  I'd be  
quite sympathetic.


   -Fred

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Fred Drake   <fdrake at acm.org>