Fred Drake wrote:
On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 12:26 PM, Chris Withers <[email protected]> wrote:
You're ignoring the fact that for the information in install_requires to
even be parsed, you need to have setuptools present.
install_requires is processed at install time. At that time, clearly,
setuptools/distribute is present.
By "is", I'm sure you mean "needs to be". Specifying setuptools in
install_requires is pointless chicken-and-egg'ing. But maybe I mean
"setup_requires" thanks to setuptools "interesting" parameter naming ;-)
That's not necessarily the case at run time. I see no reason to
expect that having setuptools or distribute on sys.path at install
time would cause it to necessarily be on the path at run time if my
package doesn't provide information that it's needed at run time.
Fair point.
I'll say it again: it seems pointless specifying a requirement that has to
be met before any requirement specifications can even be processed...
It doesn't sound to me like you've used buildout nearly as much as easy install.
Er? I *only* use buildout, however, I think I may have exempted myself
by avoiding namespace packages until PEP 382 is done, dusted and in a
python release.
Chris
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