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		rspeer on Oct 18, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Python's New Package Landscape What would requirements.txt even _do_ in a library? AFAIK that file isn't even read when packaging, distributing, and installing libraries.

lmm on Oct 18, 2018 [–]

Well presumably you want some way to have all the developers working on a library be using the same version of upstream libraries that that library depends on.

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