[Python-Dev] My summit notes (packaging)

[Tarek Ziadé]

2009/3/27 P.J. Eby <pje at telecommunity.com>:
> Also, it's quite likely that platform-specific dependencies may exist as
> well.  It might be possible to accommodate these things with a sufficiently
> flexible format, but currently, the only way to handle them with
> distutils/setuptools is in the setup script.
>

Yes, we are working on these particular issues when some metadata
require some code to run.
But most of the time, a package is able to express its dependencies in
a static file.

Regards
Tarek