On Thursday 26 October 2006 1:45 pm, Phillip J. Eby wrote: > At 01:36 PM 10/26/2006 -0600, Jeremy Kloth wrote: > >On Thursday 26 October 2006 1:14 pm, Phillip J. Eby wrote: > > > (Btw, do you have a documentation > > > link? Google doesn't turn up anything except API docs that say nothing > > > about the PEP 314 stuff.) > > > >http://skew.org/~mike/4suite-docs/html/modules/Ft.Lib.DistExt.Dist.html#Di > >st > > > >or (as always, "Read the source, Luke"): > > > >http://cvs.4suite.org/viewcvs/4Suite/Ft/Lib/DistExt/Dist.py?view=markup > > I'm still lost. What are you *doing* with the requires, provides, and > obsoletes fields, other than storing or outputting them?
Well, you asked where they were mentioned, not used ;) > There's nothing > in the doc or the source linked above that actually *does* anything with > the data that I can see. How do you use this to find and install > dependencies, for example? The consumer of those fields is actually the PackageManager class: http://cvs.4suite.org/viewcvs/4Suite/Ft/Lib/DistExt/PackageManager.py?view=markup -- Jeremy Kloth http://4suite.org/ _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
