"Diez B. Roggisch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Ben Finney schrieb: > > To clarify: I want to retain the "assert the specified > > dependencies are satisfied" behaviour, without the "... and, if > > not, download and install them the Setuptools Way" behaviour. > > > > Instead, I just want the default "dependencies not satisfied" > > behaviour for my 'setup.py' program to be: complain the > > dependencies aren't met, and refuse to install. > > The problem here is that your favorite OS vendor/distributor not > necessarily offers the required meta-information - so setuptools > can't check the dependencies.
Let's assume it does. How would I modify my 'setup.py' script so that its default behaviour, when dependencies are not met, is not "download and install dependencies via setuptools" but instead "exit with error message"? -- \ "With Lisp or Forth, a master programmer has unlimited power | `\ and expressiveness. With Python, even a regular guy can reach | _o__) for the stars." -- Raymond Hettinger | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
