[Python-Dev] setuptools in 2.5.

[Ian Bicking]

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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