On 25 Mar, 2013, at 19:16, PJ Eby <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Also, as far as detecting the need for setuptools, I think that can be > done just by noticing whether the PKG-INFO included in an sdist is > metadata 2.0 or not. If it is, then setuptools should be explicitly > declared as a build-time dependency, otherwise it's not needed. If > it's an older metadata version, then you probably need setuptools.
Is it even necessary to automaticly install setuptools? Setuptools-using package are supposed to use ez_setup.py, or distribute_setup.py for distribute, to ensure that the setuptools package is available during setup. Although I must admit that I have no idea how many packages still do this instead of assuming that users will have installed setuptools anyway. Ronald _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
