Re: [Docutils-users] docutils sometimes contains roman

[Guenter M. <mi...@us...>]

On 2010-03-23, David Goodger wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 10:35, Alan G Isaac <ai...@am...> wrote:
>>> Someone wrote:
>>>> I think docutils should never include roman but require it as a
>>>> dependency.

>> On 3/23/2010 7:41 AM, Guenter Milde wrote:
>>> Agreed. This would also make the setup.py file simpler.

...

> An indeed, as was stated earlier, when I first wrote setup.py to
> conditionally install roman.py, there was no built-in dependency
> mechanism. If such a mechanism exists now (for all supported versions
> of Python!), then we can use it. Does it?

The standard Python distutils allows specifying a dependency since
version 2.5: http://docs.python.org/release/2.5/whatsnew/pep-314.html

The non-standard setuptools package (`easy_install`) will automatically
download and install requirements. http://pypi.python.org/pypi/setuptools

> Anyone interested in improving the situation, please do the legwork.

Should we postpone this bug untils the minimal requirement is 2.5 then?

Günter