On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 1:07 PM, Chris Withers <[email protected]> wrote: > Reinout van Rees wrote: >> >> - Do my libraries have to list a dependency on distribute or on >> setuptools? >> Everything zopish has a 'setuptools >= 0.6c9' in it. > > They shouldn't, unless you only require setuptools after your package is > installed and don't use it in your setup.py, which seems unlikely. > > If you need it in your setup.py, what's the point of specifying it? You > would have had to use it by the time you specify the requirement!
I assume most packages Reinout uses (like all zope.* packages) use namespace packages. So they actually do depend during runtime on the pkg_resources module, which happens to be available from either the distribute or setuptools distribution. So one of them should be specified in install_requires. Hanno _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
