[Distutils] does pypi or red-dove have a better firehose API than "download all the packages"?

[Vinay Sajip]

> From: holger krekel <holger at merlinux.eu>


> 
> Nice.  How do you actually get at the dependencies?  Don't you
> need to execute setup.py for that?
> 

Yes, that's how it's done. However, the idea is to do it once per uploaded release and remember the results, so an installer tool like pip doesn't have to download and run setup.py every time :-)

Regards,

Vinay Sajip