[lxml-dev] specifying lxml as a dependency?

[Ian Bicking]

Chris Withers wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I'm just about to start moving Twiddler from ElementTree to lxml and I'm 
> wondering how to specify lxml as a requirement in Twiddler's setup.py?
> 
> Do I just do the normal setuptools dance or is there more to it than that?
> 
> If I specify lxml as a requirement, how do lxml's requirements for 
> libxml2 and libxlst get satisfied?

Just as 'lxml'.  On Windows it'll pull the binary egg.  Maybe a Mac egg 
is doable now?  I think there are still some difficulties to moving 
libraries around.  Linux binary eggs are too problematic to be worth 
trying.  The system will have to have libxml2/libxslt and the -dev 
packages (on Linux), and they could do "STATIC_DEPS=true easy_install 
Twiddler" to build a static lxml on Macs (with the trunk, which itself 
is a little harder to build, but hopefully there will be an easier 
release before too long).

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