On 5 May 2016 at 22:36, Daniel Holth <dho...@gmail.com> wrote: > Pedantic note > > setup_requires is a setuptools parameter used to install packages after > setup() is called. Even though very many people expect or want those > packages to be installed before setup.py executes. I think it is reasonable > to call the new feature setup_requires but some prefer to eliminate > uncertainty by calling it bootstrap_requires.
The main advantage of a new feature name is that when someone searches the internet for "python bootstrap_requires", they won't find a decade+ worth of inapplicable documentation of the setuptools feature :) Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
