On 20 Mar 2015 09:07, "Ionel Cristian Mărieș" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 10:38 PM, Nick Coghlan <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I believe setuptools can already do this (as "setup-requirements.txt"), but it's a generated file that people tend not to check into source control. > > > Isn't that just some project's convention - they just read it up in setup.py? Setuptools doesn't do anything with it by itself.
I mean the setuptools feature that writes "setup_requires.txt" to the metadata directory so you can read it without running setup.py again. However looking at https://pythonhosted.org/setuptools/history.html shows that both times it has been added (8.4 and 12.4) the feature has had to be reverted due to breaking upgrades from earlier versions :( As long as setuptools lacks the ability to generate that file, I suspect this discussion will remain largely theoretical. Regards, Nick.
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