[Python-Dev] setuptools in 2.5. (original) (raw)

Ian Bicking ianb at colorstudy.com
Thu Apr 20 23:41:53 CEST 2006

Fredrik Lundh wrote:

- they're currently discussing whether to use stricter version requirements for individual components, to increase the chance that people end up using a combination that someone else has actually tested.

I don't think setuptools version requirements are enough to ensure the integrity of all pieces of a complex system will work together. Figuring out a self-consistent set of packages to work together is something that is rather independent of any particular package, and Setuptools doesn't have a facility for that. But it does provide the tools to build that kind of facility, and egg-based installations provide the sufficient metadata to report on what has been built. So I think it is a step in the right direction. Integrating packages from a wide variety of sources is hard.

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