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

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Tue Nov 17 09:04:00 EST 2015


On Tue, 17 Nov 2015 03:33:09 -0800
Nathaniel Smith <njs at pobox.com> wrote:
> 
> 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

Ah... Is this a different thing than distlib? Does one depend on the
other?

(this may come to mind: https://www.jwz.org/doc/cadt.html :-))

Regards

Antoine.




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