In article <[email protected]>, Ryan Schmidt <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Feb 16, 2013, at 21:04, Joshua Root > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On 2013-2-16 09:52 , Lawrence Velázquez wrote: > >> On Feb 15, 2013, at 4:43 PM, Ryan Schmidt > >> <[email protected]> wrote: > But it is unusual to use distribute at runtime, isn't it? Just as it would be > unusual to use pkgconfig at runtime. Not really. Distribute, which is a fork of setuptools, is a mishmash of a number of different features. Most have to do with build and installation, e.g. the easy_install command, but some are used during the program's normal execution. In particular, Distribute/setuptools provides features for execution-time discovery of services, plugins, and application metadata. Those are ones that need the runtime dependency. Unfortunately, it's not always straightfoward to tell what kinds of setuptools API dependencies a particular port would have. Its setup.py file *should* give some clues, though. http://pythonhosted.org/distribute/setuptools.html#extensible-application s-and-frameworks -- Ned Deily, [email protected] _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-dev
