Donald Stufft <don...@stufft.io> writes: > setuptools does not offer the ability to have only build time entry > points, it assumes the installed project supplies those entry points.
I'm now convinced that Setuptools entry points are not suitable to this purpose. > spin it out into it’s own thing that can be installed on it’s own. Presumably this leads back to ‘setup_requires’ and ‘install_requires’? > The right way to handle this is to either import it in setup.py and do > it there I'd love to. How can I ‘import docutils’ in ‘setup.py’ without creating a circular dependency: * The correct way to get Docutils installed is to run ‘setup.py’ and have it install the dependencies. * Running ‘setup.py’ performs ‘import docutils’, and so will fail if Docutils is not already installed. What I need is a way to express “ensure Docutils is installed before continuing with other Setuptools actions” in ‘setup.py’. I don't know of a neat way to tell Setuptools that. -- \ “I'm beginning to think that life is just one long Yoko Ono | `\ album; no rhyme or reason, just a lot of incoherent shrieks and | _o__) then it's over.” —Ian Wolff | Ben Finney _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
