[Distutils] install_requires vs requires

[Tres Seaver]

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David Cournapeau wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 2:40 PM, Tarek Ziadé <ziade.tarek at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> Ok, that makes sense.
> 
>> 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 ?
> 
> I mostly use the distutils sources as reference, and the
> DistributionMetadata class generates provides metadata as documented
> in the corresponding PEP if the requires attribute is not empty.
> 
> Does it make sense to generate PKG-INFO with the requires field which
> value would be taken from the install_requires ? I am using sphinx as
> my main test for the conversion now, and I noticed that setuptools
> does not generate a PKG-INFO with those data (v1.0 instead of v1.1 as
> I would have expected).
> 
>> 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)
> 
> Will those arguments be added to distutils as well ? Or should I
> consider those arguments only when I detect
> distribute/setuptools-based setup.py ?

The intent is to add the PEP 345 fields to PKG-INFO as generated by
distutils.


Tres.
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