[Distutils] PEP for specifying build dependencies

[Robert Collins]

On 12 May 2016 at 08:22, Matthias Klose <doko at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> On 11.05.2016 02:39, Brett Cannon wrote:
>>
>> Donald, Nathaniel, and I have finished our proposed PEP for specifying a
>> projects' build dependencies. The PEP is being kept at
>> https://github.com/brettcannon/build-deps-pep, so if you find spelling
>> mistakes and grammatical errors please feel free to send a PR to fix them.
>
>
> probably too late or out of scope for this pep. However the distro packaging
> for python packages recommends to run the testsuite during the package
> build. Would it be possible to extend this pep to test depends, or maybe
> track this as a separate pep?

It's covered as well- this is general purpose 'what is needed to run
setup.py' - once you can run setup.py, you can machine interrogate any
further dependencies.

-Rob

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Robert Collins <rbtcollins at hpe.com>
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