I don't know when/if I'll have time for this -- maybe, but probably not
-- but I thought I'd bring this to the attention of the turbogears
group. I think this would be helpful for a good portion of the
installation problems that have been occurring lately.
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: [Distutils] easy_install, find-links, etc
Date: Tue, 04 Oct 2005 12:18:19 -0400
From: Phillip J. Eby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Ian Bicking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Python Distutils
<[email protected]>
At 11:08 AM 10/4/2005 -0500, Ian Bicking wrote:
The whole find-links thing is getting confusing -- right now each system
has to give its own set of find-links, and they aren't well inherited.
So, for instance, if Paste has some custom packages on an index page,
you can't just require Paste -- you have to require Paste plus put
whatever find-links settings are needed.
What would be mightily useful is if you could at least advise -- from
within a package -- on places to find some of the requirements for that
package. E.g., .egg-info/find_links.txt. I think it is inevitable that
packages will require custom builds, and we can't always push those
changes into PyPI or track those changes in aggregate package indexes.
Patches to implement this gratefully accepted. :) Please include:
* argument handler entry point to allow them to be specified as a setup()
keyword (I suggest "dependency_links")
* documentation in setuptools.txt for the keyword
* a metadata writer entry point to write the file (you might be able to
reuse one of the existing entry points
* code in easy_install's process_distribution() function to read and
process the metadata before doing dependency processing
Thanks. :)
