At 12:25 PM 9/30/2008 -0400, A.M. Kuchling wrote:
On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 10:41:11AM -0500, Ian Bicking wrote:
> FWIW, pyinstall can collect all the packages before installing any of
> them. You do have to download all packages, though, as that's the only
> way to get the metadata.
Does the DOAP output for a package not contain enough metadata?
Nope. And it can't possibly do so, unless it contains dependency
data for every possible variation of the package. For example, a
package might dynamically declare dependency on ctypes, depending on
whether you're installing it for Python 2.4 or Python
2.5. (Dependencies can also be platform-specific and
build-option-specific, as well as Python-version-specific.)
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