Some simple dependency support was added to Distutils. The
setup() function now has requires
, provides
,
and obsoletes
keyword parameters. When you build a source
distribution using the sdist
command, the dependency
information will be recorded in the PKG-INFO file.
Another new keyword parameter is download_url
, which should be
set to a URL for the package's source code. This means it's now
possible to look up an entry in the package index, determine the
dependencies for a package, and download the required packages.
VERSION = '1.0' setup(name='PyPackage', version=VERSION, requires=['numarray', 'zlib (>=1.1.4)'], obsoletes=['OldPackage'] download_url=('http://www.example.com/pypackage/dist/pkg-%s.tar.gz' % VERSION), )
Another new enhancement to the Python package index at
http://cheeseshop.python.org is storing source and binary
archives for a package. The new upload
Distutils command
will upload a package to the repository.
Before a package can be uploaded, you must be able to build a
distribution using the sdist
Distutils command. Once that
works, you can run python setup.py upload
to add your package
to the PyPI archive. Optionally you can GPG-sign the package by
supplying the --sign and
--identity options.
Package uploading was implemented by Martin von Löwis and Richard Jones.
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