Helper to verify presence of external libraries and modules
Functions
check_all_dependencies([force, verbosity]) | Test for all known dependencies. |
exists(dep[, force, raise_, issueWarning]) | Test whether a known dependency is installed on the system. |
Classes
SmartVersion([vstring]) | A bit evolved comparison of versions The reason for not using python’s distutil.version is that it seems to have no clue about somewhat common conventions of using ‘-dev’ or ‘dev’ or ‘rc’ suffixes for upcoming releases (so major version does contain upcoming release already). |