Re: [Docutils-users] docutils sometimes contains roman

[David G. <go...@py...>]

On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 05:25, Guenter Milde <mi...@us...> wrote:
> On 2010-03-23, David Goodger wrote:
>> 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?

Yes, I think so. I don't see any alternative.

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David Goodger <http://python.net/~goodger>