On Tue, Aug 22, 2017 at 9:23 AM, Daniel Holth <dho...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Isn't this a special case of needing . on sys.path when building a > package? Then the same version of setuptools that is being packaged builds > itself. > No. The issue for us it wasn't setuptools itself, but it's dependencies and those dependencies conflicted with dependencies of of packages we were installing *and* those packages importing these dependences (indirectly) in their setup scripts. Setup scripts that import the thing they're about to install, generally to get the version :(, is something I'd love to see go away. Jim -- Jim Fulton http://jimfulton.info
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