[Distutils] [Python-Dev] At least one package management tool for 2.7

[Carl Meyer]

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Darren Dale wrote:
> Right, I am somewhat familiar with requirements files. I guess I have
> not been keeping up closely enough with pip development recently. Last
> I checked, pip supported dependencies via requirements files (which
> are good for setting up applications in isolated environments) but not
> recursively and not without a requirements file like easy_install does

This was a misunderstanding. Pip has done recursive dependency fetching
based on install_requires metadata for years; at least as long as its
been named pip, AFAIK. Requirements files have always been an optional
feature.

> One last question: will pip support package extras? The Enthought Tool
> Suite (for example) makes extensive use of these, and there are many
> projects in our community that build on ETS. A while back there was
> some discussion of dropping this feature in pip, which could make it
> difficult for some projects to embrace distribute/pip.

Sorry, I don't know anything about the status of extras in pip.

Carl
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