[Distutils] [Catalog-sig] PEP for distutils

[Tarek Ziadé]

On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 8:21 PM, Rob Cakebread <cakebread at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 10:51 AM, Phillip J. Eby <pje at telecommunity.com> wrote:
>> At 12:25 PM 9/30/2008 -0400, A.M. Kuchling wrote:
>>>
>>> On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 10:41:11AM -0500, Ian Bicking wrote:
>>> > FWIW, pyinstall can collect all the packages before installing any of
>>> > them.  You do have to download all packages, though, as that's the only
>>> > way to get the metadata.
>>>
>>> Does the DOAP output for a package not contain enough metadata?
>>
>> Nope.  And it can't possibly do so, unless it contains dependency data for
>> every possible variation of the package.  For example, a package might
>> dynamically declare dependency on ctypes, depending on whether you're
>> installing it for Python 2.4 or Python 2.5.  (Dependencies can also be
>> platform-specific and build-option-specific, as well as
>> Python-version-specific.)
>>
>
> Not to mention the DOAP vocabulary lacks a way to describe dependency
> information. This is planned but it has to be well thought out because of
> all the variations Philip mentions.

out of curiosity, :

- can a RDF-based database can possibly handle such a graph ?
- would it make sense for PyPI to query the doap server to get those
dependency infos ?
-


>
> The good news is much of this dependency info is already in existence in
> Linux distributions. Take a Gentoo ebuild, for example. It has separate
> run-time, build-time and test dependency info, dependencies based on
> enabled features, and dependencies based on the version of Python used.
>
> Ebuilds also have metadata mapping the PyPI name to the Gentoo
> package name, so it'll be easy enough to create a database with all this info.
>
> I'm working on this now at http://doapspace.org/ where you can find DOAP
> for Python packages with a bit more metadata than the DOAP supplied on
> PyPI ( http://doapspace.org/doap/py/PYPI_PKG_NAME )
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