[Mailman-Developers] What do I need to do to add a package dependency in MM2.2?

[Barry Warsaw]

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On May 6, 2008, at 12:58 AM, mk2s at digitalcommute.com wrote:

> I'm doing some work in mm2.2 and wanted to add some python package  
> dependencies like routes, lxml, and simplejason.  How do I go about  
> declaring these dependencies so that the dependent packages will be  
> installed for the end user who wants to run mm2.2?
>
> Can someone point me in the direction of the stuff that I need to  
> read?

It's more difficult to do in Mailman 2.2, because it is not  
(currently) setuptools based.

The way it's done in 2.1 and 2.2 is to add the packages to the misc/  
directory and edit misc/Makefile.in to install them into the pythonlib  
directory when that gets created.  There's examples there for the  
email package, JapaneseCodes and KoreanCodecs.

We should target Python 2.5 at least for Mailman 2.2.  None of the  
above packages are part of that afaik, but for example, I wonder if it  
still makes sense to include those codecs packages?

- -Barry

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