Setuptools, build and install dependencies

[Harry George]

Robert Kern <robert.kern at gmail.com> writes:

> Harry George wrote:
>
>> We need to know the dependencies, install them in dependency order,
>> and expect the next package to find them.  "configure" does this for
>> hundreds of packages.  cmake, scons, and others also tackle this
>> problem.  Python's old setup.py seems to be able to do it.  
>
> No, generic setup.py scripts don't do anything of that kind.
>

Ok, setup.py itself may not do the work, but from the end users'
perspective it works that way.  Setup.py runs a configure and a make,
which in turn find the right already-installed libraries.  The point
is, setup.py plays well in such an environment.


> -- 
> Robert Kern
>
> "I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma
>  that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had
>  an underlying truth."
>   -- Umberto Eco
>

-- 
Harry George
PLM Engineering Architecture