Hanno Schlichting wrote:
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.
You're missing my point.
If you're using buildout, you automatically have setuptools available.
If you're using easy_install, you automatically have setuptools available.
So, the only case we can even consider is when you're installing a
setuptools-based package with:
python setup.py install
In this case, which I suspect is extremely rare anyway, you'll need to
have setuptools installed already.
So, in *any* of these cases, specifying setuptools as a requirement
seems like a total waste of time...
Now, what case have I missed? ;-)
Chris
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