[tor-bugs] #10008 [Tor bundles/installation]: rethink the dependencies handling of PTBB

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#10008: rethink the dependencies handling of PTBB
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 Reporter:  infinity0                 |          Owner:  erinn
     Type:  enhancement               |         Status:  new
 Priority:  minor                     |      Milestone:
Component:  Tor bundles/installation  |        Version:
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 The heavy amount of custom shell script just to get dependencies scares me
 and is a maintenance liability. py2exe at least automatically includes
 transitive deps in the build. I had a look at
 [http://docs.python.org/2/library/modulefinder.html modulefinder] but it
 is behaving in a weird way - for example, running my attached script on
 flashproxy-client for some reason gives setuptools as a dependency. There
 are also many false negatives due to conditional-imports, a feature unique
 to python.

 Also, do we have some usage statics for the GNU/Linux bundles? I should
 think most people use their distro's package manager for this... For Mac
 OS X we have to do a custom package in any case. :(

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