[Distutils] GSoC 2017 - Plan of Action for dependency resolver

[Pradyun Gedam]

On Sat, 4 Mar 2017 at 22:58 Donald Stufft <donald at stufft.io> wrote:

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> On Mar 4, 2017, at 12:25 PM, Pradyun Gedam <pradyunsg at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Since PyPI does not have such information in a static declarative format,
> that approach is not feasible. pip will have to download packages and
> execute setup.py to know what the dependencies are.
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> I will note, that we can expose that information in PyPI for *wheels*, but
> not for sdists currently. It would be a lot more work though because it’d
> essentially require a whole new repository API and I doubt Pradyun wants to
> tackle that right now :)
>

Yeah... For now, it's just dependency resolution in pip.


> Keeping a future in mind where we can get a least some of that information
> without downloading would be good though, at least to keep in mind when
> structuring code.
>

Duly noted.


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> Donald Stufft
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