[Distutils] install_requires vs requires

[Tarek Ziadé]

On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 8:28 AM, David Cournapeau <cournape at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am working on a new packaging solution, and I want to convert
> existing setup.py. I noticed that the install_requires as used by
> setuptools is not put into PKG-INFO as requires. Is this expected ?

Yes because it is not part of the standard, so setuptools is putting
this in "requires.txt"
which could be considered as an extension to the metadata.

PEP 345 will include a new field that can replace requires.txt.

> What is the difference between requires and require_install ? What
> happens when both have different values ?

What are those names ?

See http://packages.python.org/distribute/setuptools.html#new-and-changed-setup-keywords
for the list of new keywords introduced by Setuptools (+ a few more by
Distribute)

> cheers,
>
> David
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