[Distutils] does pypi or red-dove have a better firehose API than "download all the packages"?
holger krekel
holger at merlinux.eu
Fri May 24 22:05:45 CEST 2013
On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 17:51 +0300, Marius Gedminas wrote:
> On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 02:01:16PM +0000, holger krekel wrote:
> > On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 09:55 -0400, Donald Stufft wrote:
> > > Most packages also have an egg-info inside of them you can parse.
> > >
> > > Of course the issue is that you're only going to get the
> > > requirements of the system that ran setup.py, either the authors or
> > > the servers. Which doesn't accurately represent all of the
> > > dependencies all of the time.
> >
> > True but maybe it would go a long way for most packages.
>
> In that case you might find
> https://github.com/mgedmin/ztk-py3-status/blob/master/get_deps.py
> useful.
looks interesting but a bit of a strange UI it seems. Why not accept
a tar archive? Or am i missing something?
holger
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