On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 1:05 PM, P.J. Eby <[email protected]> wrote: > At 10:21 AM 12/3/2009 -0800, Sridhar Ratnakumar wrote: >> >> Do you have anything particular in mind? What I did was a ``grep >> "^.*[a-zA-Z]\["`` in the requires.txt of (almost) all the packages in PyPI. > > Do note that this won't tell you about end users' use of extras. > > The main use case described in the documentation for extras is allowing > users to install optional support for things. That means you're more likely > to see them in buildout configurations (which won't be found on PyPI), and > manual installation steps (which aren't recorded anywhere).
Incidentally, I never got around to implementing extras in pip, and no one has asked about it so far. (Though I guess pip generally encourages people handle transitive dependencies explicitly; i.e., if you want zope.component with zcml, then install zope.component and zope.component.zcml.) -- Ian Bicking | http://blog.ianbicking.org | http://topplabs.org/civichacker _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
