On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 02:31:34AM +0100, "Martin v. L?wis" wrote: > > Tools which will need this data, in order to do their work. Hence, > > the reason for standardizing the data, instead of the tool(s). > > If there was a chance that the infrastructure being developed > actually helps these tools, *that* would be a reasonable goal, > IMO. > > However, I'm extremely skeptical that this can ever succeed > to the degree that whoever provides RPMs, .debs, or MSI > files will actually use such data, as they will find that > the data are incomplete, and they have to redo all of it, > anyway.
I've found it extremely useful to have access to dependency information when making Debian packages automagically out of setuptools tarballs. It's not easy or robust to access/use it, but for my simple pure python packages, it's been working wonderfully. -- Brian Sutherland _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
