Question

Is it possible to have distutils just run the python module dependency analysis (and possibly install missing modules) without actually installing the python module in question? I imagine a command as follows:

./setup.py check-dependencies

that would report if any dependent modules are missing on the target system.

Answer 1

I think the closest you can get is:

setup.py install -v -n

which means to run a dry-run (-n) in verbose (-v) mode.

You could also use the distuitls.dep_util module, it wouldn’t work as an option of setup.py though.

HTH!