Tres Seaver wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Jim Fulton wrote: > >> These downsides are, in practice, pretty minor. My main objection is >> that I don't like encouraging people to be sloppy about >> dependencies. The counter argument, of course, is that the standard >> library is an implicit dependency and we are behaving as if >> setuptools is part of the standard library. > > Perhaps we need a lint-like utility ('candle.py', perhaps :) which > examines a given egg, looking for issues such as imports from packages > which are not in a path synthesized from the egg's dependencies?
That'd be useful. It'd be especially useful if it were integrated into setuptools, as that way it's a bit more likely people will actually use it. Regards, Martijn _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig