At 10:38 PM 9/26/2007 +0200, Martijn Faassen wrote: >An alternative would be to expand the syntax of install_requires and >extra_require to allow the recommended version number hint. Something >like this: > >install_requires = [ > 'foo (1.2.1)', > 'bar >= 1.3 (1.3.2)', > ] > >Installation tools are free to ignore the latter number and just install >something that fits the basic requirement: > >install_requires = [ > 'foo', > 'bar >= 1.3', >] > >But an installation could be taught to take this into account and get >those versions, and do the equivalent of this: > >install_requires = [ > 'foo == 1.2.1', > 'bar == 1.3.2', > ] > >The install tool could choose in the case of conflicting version numbers >to pick the one in the outer packages. So, if foo depends on bar, and >bar says it would prefer qux 1.3, while foo actually prefers 1.3.2, foo >would trump bar.
Note that the previous proposal for having a way to specify "or'ed" conditions would allow this, but it isn't going to happen until I get an 0.6 final out so I can focus on refactoring and new features in 0.7. _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
