On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 10:09 AM, Chris Withers <[email protected]> wrote: > By "is", I'm sure you mean "needs to be". Specifying setuptools in > install_requires is pointless chicken-and-egg'ing. But maybe I mean > "setup_requires" thanks to setuptools "interesting" parameter naming ;-)
You just might. install_requires is for what's needed at run time, which is what most of us mean when we refer to install_requires by name. > Er? I *only* use buildout, however, I think I may have exempted myself by > avoiding namespace packages until PEP 382 is done, dusted and in a python > release. Your use of buildout is obvious in many contexts, but do realize why I (and likely others) wondered at your insistence that mentioning setuptools there was meaningless. Clarifying this hasn't been cheap (though valuable, IMO). -Fred -- Fred L. Drake, Jr. <fdrake at gmail.com> "Chaos is the score upon which reality is written." --Henry Miller _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
