New submission from anatoly techtonik <techto...@gmail.com>: When documentation grows too large it is nice to have clear examples that stand out of text. Explanation is important to get the idea, but for a reference cookbook examples work better.
Here is a patch to clarify the usage of *requires* and *provides* keywords in setup.py on the documentation page http://docs.python.org/distutils/setupscript.html#relationships-between-distributions-and-packages --- setupscript_old.txt Wed Feb 25 17:09:41 2009 +++ setupscript.txt Wed Feb 25 17:34:00 2009 @@ -423,6 +423,14 @@ distribution being described. If no qualifiers are given, all versions of the named module or package are understood to be obsoleted. +Example of using *requires* and *provides* keywords :: + + setup(..., + requires=['dbm', 'foo=>1.1.0'], + provides=['myapi (1.1)'], + ) + + Installing Scripts ================== ---------- assignee: tarek components: Distutils, Documentation files: setupscript.diff keywords: patch messages: 82706 nosy: tarek, techtonik severity: normal status: open title: examples for dependency keywords in setup.py Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file13173/setupscript.diff _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue5366> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
