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From: Harry George <harry.g.george at boeing.com>
Subject: Re: Modules for inclusion in standard library?
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Mike Meyer <mwm at mired.org> writes:

> Harry George <harry.g.george at boeing.com> writes:
> 
> > b) Installing distutils-aware python packages is trivial.  I'd rather
> > the energy which might go into a bigger std library go instead into
> > helping projects which don't have distutils-style builds.
> 
> How about integrating distutils and PyPI, so that distutils can
> automatically download and install packages that are required by the
> package it's currently installing? In other words, C-Python-AN.
> 
>         <mike
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> Mike Meyer <mwm at mired.org>			http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/
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I personally don't do auto download/installs, preferring instead to
scan the code before build/install.  However, getting a list of
dependencies would be nice.   Maybe a setup.py --requires flag.


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