[Distutils] Get dependencies of a package without full download

[Daniel Holth]

Vinay Sajip was maintaining metadata as described here, I'm sure there
are functions in distil to help fetch it.
http://distil.readthedocs.org/en/latest/packaging.html#packaging-metadata.

The most severe problem with this data is of course that it is not
always correct because the environment he evaluated setup.py in to get
the data may be different than yours.


On Wed, Apr 1, 2015 at 2:20 PM, Donald Stufft <donald at stufft.io> wrote:
> The answer to this is technically yes, but realistically no.
>
> If you build Wheels and you upload a Wheel *first* and you use twine
> to do so, then you will register the dependency information with
> PyPI and that will be available in the JSON API. If you upload a sdist
> first (or you type setup.py register) or you don’t use twine then
> they will not get registered.
>
> Look for “requires_dist” in https://pypi.python.org/pypi/twine/json
>
> If anyone has specific things they’d like to see in an API I urge you
> to open issues on the Warehouse issue tracker
> (https://github.com/pypa/warehouse) so that we can make sure we
> consider them for inclusion into Warehouse.
>
>
>> On Apr 1, 2015, at 2:17 PM, Barry Warsaw <barry at python.org> wrote:
>>
>> On Apr 01, 2015, at 04:14 PM, Thomas Güttler wrote:
>>
>>> Is it possible to get the dependencies of a package without full download
>>> from pypi?
>>
>> It would be kind of nice if you could get the package's metadata (e.g
>> egg-info/entry_points.txt) out of its PyPI JSON blob:
>>
>> https://pypi.python.org/pypi/flufl.i18n/json
>>
>> Cheers,
>> -Barry
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