bzr-lp-branches

[John Arbash Meinel]

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James Westby wrote:
> On Wed Dec 09 21:01:43 +0000 2009 Gordon Tyler wrote:
>> What's bugging me is the *28* Zope libraries that it installed. Surely
>> it can't be using all of those?
> 
> It's a bit of an issue with setup.py and lazr.restfulclient's setup.py
> in particular. It uses lazr.restful in the test suite, so declares that
> it depends on it. It doesn't currently use it at runtime though, so
> commenting it out means that it doesn't install it.
> 
> Most of those 28 are caused by lazr.restful. Without that launchpadlib
> depends on about 5 libraries that you are unlikely to have installed.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> James
> 
> 

So is that the equivalent of "recommends" versus "requires" ? Is there
any way to codify that in setuptools?

John
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