Just use my script. Once new-metadata has been standardized pip itself will know how to install build (setup) requirements and the script will be obsolete. Until then I think you will find it works. On Jan 20, 2015 10:27 PM, "Ben Finney" <ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au> wrote:
> Carl Meyer <c...@oddbird.net> writes: > > > On 01/20/2015 07:28 PM, Ben Finney wrote: > > > 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. > > > > That is the precise purpose of the `setup_requires` kwarg. > > That's too late though. What I need is to be able to instruct the build > process to install Docutils so I can get stuff done *before ‘setup()’ is > called*. > > Is there an API within Distutils or Setuptools that allows me to say “I > haven't declared anything yet but go get and install distribution FOO > right now”? I could do that before importing the module which needs > Docutils. > > -- > \ “The long-term solution to mountains of waste is not more | > `\ landfill sites but fewer shopping centres.” —Clive Hamilton, | > _o__) _Affluenza_, 2005 | > Ben Finney > > _______________________________________________ > Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig >
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