[Distutils] setuptools: can I specify different install_requires for different python versions?

[David Lyon]

On Thu, 30 Jul 2009 17:00:04 -0500, Ian Bicking <ianb at colorstudy.com>
wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 2:28 PM, Kevin Teague<kevin at bud.ca> wrote:
>> ... It would be nice if the python standard library was packaged up
>> into a set of distributions in some sensible way. These distributions
>> would still be pulled into main Python release so that they are
>> installed the same as they always have, but the [python-install]/lib/
>> python/ directory would contain .egg-info files, so that it would be
>> possible to tell that the 'multiprocessing' distro is supplied by the
>> standard lib, and what version of the distro is included in a
>> particular Python release.
> 
> This is done for ElementTree (and maybe a couple other things?), but I
> agree, it would be great for every new addition to the standard
> library.
> 
> It would be possible to create a script that did this for existing
> Python installations.  Necessary in a sense, because 2.6.0
> installations can't be changed (along with every other old
> installation), and dealing with older versions is the entire point of
> such an exercise.

Is that a job for a package manager program?

or is it something that will be included within the standard python
do you think?

David