Robert Collins <[email protected]> writes: > For context, the main use I have for setup_requires these days is > projects with a version contained within the project, and for the use > of pbr in openstack (and some other git hosted) projects.
[…] > The openstack projects have a nice solution I think, which is that > they write the egg metadata file and then read that back - both at > runtime via pbr helpers and at build time when pbr takes over the > build. I'm not using ‘pbr’, but yes, a big bundle of “create an egg-info file and read it back” custom Setuptools code was the clumsy solution I ended up with for this in ‘python-daemon’ 2.x. If that boilerplate could be removed, and “this is a dependency for build actions only” could just work for all users, I would be quite happy. -- \ “The problem with television is that the people must sit and | `\ keep their eyes glued on a screen: the average American family | _o__) hasn't time for it.” —_The New York Times_, 1939 | Ben Finney _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
