[Python-Dev] [Distutils] At least one package management tool for 2.7 (original) (raw)

Olemis Lang olemis at gmail.com
Wed Mar 24 13:27:03 CET 2010

On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 7:50 AM, Darren Dale <dsdale24 at gmail.com> wrote:

On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 6:26 AM, Tarek Ziadé <ziade.tarek at gmail.com> wrote:

The open question is: do we want to include a full installer that takes care of installing / removing dependencies as well ?

I think not. Pip already provides this feature on the top of distutils (and distutils2 later I guess) and is not hard to install on the top of Python. Is pip able to determine and install dependencies recursively, like easyinstall does? Or is it up to the requested package to it specify its dependencies (and its dependencies dependencies) in a pip requirements file that is distributed separately?

My experience is that only install_requires is needed (unless you want to create app bundles AFAICR) , but in practice I've noticed that some easy_installable packages are not pip-able (though I had no time to figure out why :-/ )

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Olemis.

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