Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
True... but because of that people are able to specify setuptools in
setup.py and it will work with either distribute or setuptools.
If you mean in the "install_requires" or "setup_requires" parameters to
setuptools setup method, then I'm yet to see a use case where this is
required...
> you're getting at that if people didn't specify setuptools in setup.py,
> distribute-0.6 could install without using the setuptools name?
Without faking the setuptools distribution, yes.
> I don't
> think that works since you still need to take over the setuptools module
package != module != distribution.
setuptools and distribute are both distributions that provide a
setuptools package. However, requirements are specified in terms of
distributions, which is why people specifying setuptools as a
requirement causes problems. As I've said several times now, I just
can't see any point in doing that... will someone please enlighten me as
to why people feel the need to specify "setuptools" in
"install_requires" or "setup_requires" when the code that parses those
requirements can't execute unless a package called setuptools is present
already?
Chris
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