Carl Meyer <carl <at> oddbird.net> writes: > Sidenote, and already mentioned by MAL upthread, but --record is a > distutils feature, not a setuptools feature, so this is not the reason > pip forces setuptools. > > I think the actual reason is so that pip can have a uniform way to > access metadata (including dependency metadata that only setuptools has) > by running "setup.py egg-info", which is setuptools-only. (It also means
But if a distribution uses only distutils, it won't be declaring any dependency metadata through install_requires=, setup_requires= etc. or any other kwarg recognised only by setuptools - so where would the dependency information come from? It seems like the egg_info command is the sole reason, or did I miss something? Regards, Vinay Sajip _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
