[Distutils] does pypi or red-dove have a better firehose API than "download all the packages"?

[Donald Stufft]

On May 24, 2013, at 12:31 PM, "M.-A. Lemburg" <mal at egenix.com> wrote:

> On 24.05.2013 18:18, Donald Stufft wrote:
>> 
>> On May 24, 2013, at 12:14 PM, "M.-A. Lemburg" <mal at egenix.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> On 24.05.2013 17:21, Vinay Sajip wrote:
>>>> Donald Stufft <donald <at> stufft.io> writes:
>>>> 
>>>>> Most packages also have an egg-info inside of them you can parse.
>>>> 
>>>> I don't know how accurate that information is - IIRC pip always runs
>>>> egg-info on downloaded archives. I presume this is to get the correct
>>>> dependencies which are relevant to the installation system.
>>> 
>>> It would be nice to have the PKG-INFO readily available on the /simple/
>>> index pages.
>>> 
>>> This contains the Requires header as well.
>> 
>> The requires headers in the PKG-INFO are practically worthless.
> 
> Hmm, looking at a few PKG-INFO entries for Zope packages, I guess you're
> right. Looks like setuptools forgets to add the header to the PKG-INFO.
> 
>>> At the moment, PKG-INFO is only available on the PyPI edit pages
>>> for packages you own, even though access is possible without
>>> login:
>>> 
>>> https://pypi.python.org/pypi?name=egenix-mx-base&version=3.2.6&:action=display_pkginfo
> 
> It does appear in our PKG-INFO entries:
> 
> https://pypi.python.org/pypi?name=egenix-mxodbc&version=3.2.3&:action=display_pkginfo
> 
> so I guess setuptools isn't behaving quite right in this respect.
> 
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setuptools is behaving correctly. the Requires field in the old metadata is for requiring python modules (e.g. things you can directly import). Whereas install_requires is for requiring python distributions (e.g. something you can download from PyPI). The old metadata has no provisions for python distributions.

That's why the Requires field is "practically worthless".

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