[Distutils] something else to throw into the static metadata mix

[Chris Withers]

Hi All,

Sorry to bring this up if it makes things more difficult, if it's been 
solved or is covered by existing proposals, please point me in the right 
way.

I've had a bit of a torrid time building psycopg2 from source of late, 
and in my dream world, being able to specify psycopg2 as a dependent egg 
would "just work" and pull down the right statically linked binary egg.

This raises a problem that I haven't seen covered anywhere: not only 
would these eggs have to be platform dependent, they'd also need to be 
dependent on the required version of postgres.

Does setuptools/buildout/any other existing or proposed packaging 
solution cater for this kind of requirement?

cheers,

Chris

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