Tres Seaver wrote: > Marius Gedminas wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 09:19:13AM -0400, Tres Seaver wrote: > >> There is one more new > >> argument to setup() we should consider, which might be spelled > >> 'build_requires', and which would map onto the 'Requires-External' > >> PKG-INFO field. > > Setuptools has a 'setup_requires' argument to setup(). I don't know if > > the semantics of that one are similar to your proposed 'build_requires'. > > Nope: 'build_requires' is something Matthias Klose discussed as being > useful for downstream packagers: it doesn't refer to Python > distributions, but to external library / tool requriements.
It could still be useful to python as well, for a potential future tool. That's very useful for bootstrapping packages, for example, so it is not just for downstream packagers. @Marius: build-requires spells out the dependencies necessary to *build* the concerned package, but which are not necessary to *use* the package. For example, a python package foo requires paver to be built correctly, but you can use foo in your own code without paver. cheers, David _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
