On Sat, 4 Mar 2017 at 22:58 Donald Stufft <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Mar 4, 2017, at 12:25 PM, Pradyun Gedam <[email protected]> wrote: > > Since PyPI does not have such information in a static declarative format, > that approach is not feasible. pip will have to download packages and > execute setup.py to know what the dependencies are. > > > > I will note, that we can expose that information in PyPI for *wheels*, but > not for sdists currently. It would be a lot more work though because it’d > essentially require a whole new repository API and I doubt Pradyun wants to > tackle that right now :) >
Yeah... For now, it's just dependency resolution in pip. > Keeping a future in mind where we can get a least some of that information > without downloading would be good though, at least to keep in mind when > structuring code. > Duly noted. > — > > Donald Stufft >
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