Who cares exactly why it doesn't work? We know how to fix it by doing something different (put build dependencies in a static file and have them installed by pip before running setup.py).
On Tue, May 3, 2016 at 3:33 PM Donald Stufft <don...@stufft.io> wrote: > > On May 3, 2016, at 3:28 PM, Alex Grönholm <alex.gronh...@nextday.fi> > wrote: > > As I pointed out in my previous post, "extended commands" are not the only > use case for setup_requires -- upgrading setuptools itself would enable > support for PEP 508 style conditional requirements. This currently does not > work because if you have such requirements in your setup(), setuptools will > fail when parsing those before it even has a chance to act on the minimum > setuptools requirement specification in setup_requires. > > > I don’t think this would work anyways without some terrible hacks since by > the time setup_requires have been installed setuptools has already been > imported so the *old* version will be in sys.modules. > > ----------------- > Donald Stufft > PGP: 0x6E3CBCE93372DCFA // 7C6B 7C5D 5E2B 6356 A926 F04F 6E3C BCE9 3372 > DCFA > >
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