At 08:53 PM 12/3/2005 +0000, John J Lee wrote: >Is it possible for a package to depend on one of several packages, with >the user having the option to pick? For example, my package P might >depend on package A, plus either package B or package C.
Interesting; I'd be curious to know what P, B and C translate to in real packages. :) >I know I could (ab)use extras_require, but in my case this is a real >dependency rather than an optional extra. The other option I have is to >just pick one of the dependencies (B or C in my example above), and >thereby force people to install it even though it's not strictly required. >Neither option seems particularly attractive. I'm surprised that such a condition exists; it seems like one of the two would be redundant. _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
