Re: [Docutils-users] docutils sometimes contains roman

[Alan G I. <ai...@am...>]

On 3/24/2010 5:25 AM, Guenter Milde wrote:
> The standard Python distutils allows specifying a dependency since
> version 2.5:http://docs.python.org/release/2.5/whatsnew/pep-314.html


Are you assuming the user has installed easy_install?
I'm going to guess most Windows users have not.

And what if the user has some other roman.py?
(E.g., I think there's one by Jim Walsh floating around.)
Will distutils be able to handle that properly?

(These are real not rhetorical questions.)

I still do not understand why it appropriate to invoke
such a dependency mechanism for a single, small module
that can easily be packaged.  Isn't there some way for
it to go in the docutils namespace to avoid potential conflicts?
The licensing issue seems manageable: just put it in
    docutils/notpublicdomain/psf/roman.py

Alan