[Distutils] [sqlalchemy] Re: inability to pass setup.py command line arguments to dependency setups

[Tres Seaver]

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Lennart Regebro wrote:
> On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 07:48, Glyph Lefkowitz <glyph at twistedmatrix.com> wrote:
>> a dependency-correctness issue.  However, if a C extension wraps features
>> necessary for an application to work correctly, without which it will simply
>> traceback and die, then it should be possible for the application to say "I
>> depend on this functionality".
> 
> I think setuptools can do this, but I've never used it so I'm not sure.
> 
> Another option would to package the extensions as a separate package,
> so you get 'MySQL' and 'MySQL-C-extensions'. Problem solved. :)

That is effectivaly what the "extras" bit in setuptools does[

http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/setuptools#declaring-extras-optional-features-with-their-own-dependencies




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