[Distutils] Pip is not a library was: FINAL DRAFT: Dependency specifier PEP

[Donald Stufft]

> On Nov 17, 2015, at 6:33 AM, Nathaniel Smith <njs at pobox.com> wrote:
> 
> On Nov 16, 2015 11:57 PM, "Thomas Güttler" <guettliml at thomas-guettler.de <mailto:guettliml at thomas-guettler.de>> wrote:
> >
> > > The job of a dependency is to enable tools like pip [#pip]_ to find the right
> > > package to install.
> >
> > My worries: AFAIK pip is not a library.
> >
> > I don't want to re-implement code to handle this pep.
> >
> > I would like to re-use.
> >
> > But AFAIK pip is not a library.
> >
> > I am stupid and don't know how to proceed.
> >
> > Please tell me what to do.
> 
> Presumably there will be a dependency parser added to the 'packaging' library, which already exists as a standard place to stick stuff like this, so you'll just use that. (E.g. it's what pip uses for PEP 440 version parsing today.)
> 
> https://pypi.python.org/pypi/packaging <https://pypi.python.org/pypi/packaging>
> 

https://github.com/pypa/packaging/pull/45 <https://github.com/pypa/packaging/pull/45>

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