On Fri, Oct 09, 2009 at 03:28:57PM +0100, Chris Withers wrote: > > 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? ;-) > It's nice for people creating system packages when you specify all of the packages that your runtime depends on in setup.py. That allows system packagers to read setup.py and be able to create the complete list of runtime dependencies for their packaging metadata. Several times I've been asked for help debugging why a python package fails to work for a few people only to discover that the package used entry-points or another setuptools runtime feature but only required it for buildtime. Note, however, that overspeciying the *versions* you need has the opposite effect :-)
-Toshio
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