Carl Meyer <c...@oddbird.net> writes: > On 01/20/2015 07:28 PM, Ben Finney wrote: > > What I need is a way to express “ensure Docutils is installed before > > continuing with other Setuptools actions” in ‘setup.py’. I don't > > know of a neat way to tell Setuptools that. > > That is the precise purpose of the `setup_requires` kwarg.
That's too late though. What I need is to be able to instruct the build process to install Docutils so I can get stuff done *before ‘setup()’ is called*. Is there an API within Distutils or Setuptools that allows me to say “I haven't declared anything yet but go get and install distribution FOO right now”? I could do that before importing the module which needs Docutils. -- \ “The long-term solution to mountains of waste is not more | `\ landfill sites but fewer shopping centres.” —Clive Hamilton, | _o__) _Affluenza_, 2005 | Ben Finney _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
