On 10/18/10 12:00 AM, Ravi Pinjala wrote: > > I'd even suggest that what you're suggesting for downloading the > dependencies is too much. The standard for *nix systems (in other > words, what users expect) is for the package to fail-fast at build > time if anything's missing, and let the package manager sort out the > deps ahead of time.
Yeah, I kind of want "setup.py install" to behave like that (check for dependencies, by importing them, but not try to download or build any of them), and provide pointers to a different tool (currently named "setup.py build_deps") that will do the fancy handy automatic download/build part. I'm on the fence as to whether fancy-handy should be the default or not, but I think I prefer not, as long as there's an obvious command for folks who want that sort of thing to get it. cheers, -Brian _______________________________________________ tahoe-dev mailing list [email protected] http://tahoe-lafs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tahoe-dev
