[Distutils] does pypi or red-dove have a better firehose API than "download all the packages"?

[Marius Gedminas]

On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 08:05:45PM +0000, holger krekel wrote:
> On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 17:51 +0300, Marius Gedminas wrote:
> > On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 02:01:16PM +0000, holger krekel wrote:
> > > On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 09:55 -0400, Donald Stufft wrote:
> > > > Most packages also have an egg-info inside of them you can parse.
> > > > 
> > > > Of course the issue is that you're only going to get the
> > > > requirements of the system that ran setup.py, either the authors or
> > > > the servers. Which doesn't accurately represent all of the
> > > > dependencies all of the time.
> > > 
> > > True but maybe it would go a long way for most packages.
> > 
> > In that case you might find
> > https://github.com/mgedmin/ztk-py3-status/blob/master/get_deps.py
> > useful.
> 
> looks interesting but a bit of a strange UI it seems. Why not accept
> a tar archive?  Or am i missing something?

It's part of a pipeline that builds http://zope3.pov.lt/py3/

At that point I don't have a single tar archive; I have a list of
package names, versions and sdist URLs.

Marius Gedminas
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