Christopher Barker wrote: > Ned Deily wrote: >> The easiest way is to use the install_requires keyword in setup.py. See >> the setuptools documentation here: >> >> <http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/setuptools> > > That appears to handle dependencies: > > install_requires > A string or list of strings specifying what other distributions need to > be installed when this one is. See the section below on Declaring > Dependencies for details and examples of the format of this argument. > > Which looks quite dangerous, as a matter of fact. For example, I do > > easy_install foo > > foo has install_requires("numpy==1.0.3") > > now setuptools will download and install numpy1.0.3, but it won't get > used, 'cause there is an older numpy earlier on the pythonpath.
This is incorrect. sys.path gets modified appropriately. -- Robert Kern "I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth." -- Umberto Eco _______________________________________________ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig
