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

[Donald Stufft]

On May 24, 2013, at 7:17 AM, Vinay Sajip <vinay_sajip at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

>> 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 :-)

So what you're saying is I can root your machine with a setup.py? ;)

> 
> Regards,
> 
> Vinay Sajip
> 
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