On Wed, 18 Oct 2006 16:45:10 -0500 "Aaron Griffin" <aaronmgriffin@gmail.com> wrote:
On 10/18/06, Jason Chu <jason@archlinux.org> wrote:
This is actually a superior idea IMO, and could be extended infinitely (to python, et al) and not require a complex plugin system in pacman to do this.
This is one of the reasons I wrote pacbuild... too bad it's still not done... While the actual building is only one part of this, you'd need something if it was extended to all packages.
eww. I looked at python, and while the xmlrpc interface to Pypi is cake, as far as getting information, and the download urls list 'kind' by distutils, eggs, etc etc, there is _no_ dependancy information anywhere, and according to some of the docs, it never will have dependancy info.
Eggs should have dependency info inside them. Anything easy_installable should be pretty good about that sort of stuff. If it's not setuptools-able, that's when you'll run into trouble. Jason