At 06:09 PM 6/22/2009 -0400, Barry Warsaw wrote:
We have a suite of tools in the 'lazr' namespace that we've begun to
release as open source. All of these packages are maintained under
bzr and it's really nice to be able to add this to our setup.py:
setup_requires=['setuptools_bzr']
This extends setuptools so that we can use bzr instead of the built-in
revision control systems. With that, 'python setup.py sdist' pulls in
the right stuff. All of our packages are buildout based.
The problem is that when we buildout the package, the download cache
is never consulted and setuptools_bzr is /always/ downloaded.
I don't know what the "download cache" is, so I can't speak to
that. However, what I can say is that if you're using "sdist" for
distribution, you probably don't need that setup_requires line in the
first place.
When you build an sdist using setuptools, it includes a pre-generated
file manifest, along with a setup.cfg that forces the right revision
tag information in the project's version number (if
applicable). This is specifically designed so that the person
building your sdist doesn't need the same revision control system installed.
In short, the only person who needs setuptools_bzr installed is the
person who's generating the sdists. So, feel free to drop it from
setup_requires and be happy. ;-)
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