On Sun, Sep 30, 2012 at 4:55 AM, Daniel Holth <dho...@gmail.com> wrote: > I like this kind of study. Fixing 1300 packages sounds a lot more > manageable than fixing 18,000. (I took a similar look at setup.py but > with the ast module instead of actually running the things. Your > method is probably more accurate.) It would be very cool to know how > many packages use if: statements to affect install_requires...
Note that being able to convert a package does not mean the conversion is working. You need to make sure that installing something from this new format gives the same thing as installing from the setup.py. That's harder to test, obviously. > > Is there a good "download the latest versions of everything hosted on > pypi" script? Mine was pretty terrible as it could not resume after a > crash or after the data got stale. I would be interested in that as well, I wanted to do the same kind of analysis for Bento's convert command. David _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig