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5th May 2020

TIL Use setup.py to install platform-specific dependencies — For [photos-to-sqlite](https://github.com/dogsheep/photos-to-sqlite) I needed to install `osxphotos` as a dependency, but only if the platform is macOS - it's not available for Linux.

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Posted 5th May 2020 at 9:14 pm

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