Hi! > Do any of you have useful software that scans source code to determine > its dependencies? Currently, I am creating such a tool for Listaller. (cross-distro app-installer & manager) At time we have a tool called "Visual-LDD" to display a library-dependency-tree from binary files. Someone also planned to implement this for Python, which already has something like a dependency finder in its standard-library. (But I don't know if there has been some more work...) My plan is to create a tool which first find all dependencies of a software automatically, no matter if it is a compiled binary app or Python or Perl, or XYZ and then uses distromatch to determine which packages will match the dependency. In a third step the tool will check in which distro-releases the package is present and give information like "your tool will run on Fedora 12-15". If a dependency cannot be found in a distribution, the tool will use 3rd-party sources. (It's pupose is to generate a bit of Listaller-XML which is used by the setup to fetch dependencies) If this is successful, I think the "depscan" tool can easily be used without Listaller. I haven't followed the whole thread, for which purpose do you want this tool? Or is it just a "what if..." thought? Regards Matthias Klumpp
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