-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 01/07/2015 07:20 PM, Chris Barker wrote: > OK -- I just found the --no-deps option. So I can do what I want, but > still, I don't think it belongs there and all, and certainly would be > better to have the default be no-deps. Let pip (or conda, or...) > handle that.
Unlike pip (which provides no API), setuptools is a library, used by e.g. zc.buildout. The behavior which you find objectionable (installing dependencies needed to satisfy 'install_requires') is a core part of what setuptools *does* -- ripping it out (or even changing the default) would break nearly every other user of setuptools in the world. Tres. - -- =================================================================== Tres Seaver +1 540-429-0999 tsea...@palladion.com Palladion Software "Excellence by Design" http://palladion.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlSupRIACgkQ+gerLs4ltQ5/fgCfZTk7b9+eVwLqJcztO1RggQJ2 XxkAoM0gYO+vV/sOrIcVqPFbCRVmAi+o =gRN+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
