-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Reinout van Rees wrote: > On 2009-10-09, Chris Withers <ch...@simplistix.co.uk> wrote: >> Reinout van Rees wrote: >>> I'm still not 100% sure whether it is safe to put "distribute" in the >>> install_requires list of a package right now, however. >> As with setuptools, why do you think you need to? > > Namespace packages. You get warnings "hey, no setuptools dependency" once you > use namespaces.
That is a buildout bug: whining about the lack of depenedency on the only package which makes dependencies meaningful is silly. No package should *ever* need to declare that it depends on setuptools. > Note that if I depend on distribute, I also get warnings about not having a > setuptools depencency sometimes... :-) Likewise. Tres. - -- =================================================================== Tres Seaver +1 540-429-0999 tsea...@palladion.com Palladion Software "Excellence by Design" http://palladion.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkrUuSgACgkQ+gerLs4ltQ7lewCZAS/MML7cmnzEnK1M6gbSSQHS lrQAn2KDOhsfT8Wtj83DW9G4WTOVXoS2 =VxBP -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
