On Wed, Aug 23, 2017, at 05:37 AM, Nick Coghlan wrote: > On 23 August 2017 at 05:24, xoviat <xov...@gmail.com> wrote: > > The question that I have is: how does flit address this issue? Does flit > > require external dependencies to bootstrap itself? > > It does, but those dependencies currently use setuptools as their > packaging system rather than flit.
Yup. I actually moved a package which I maintain (zipfile36) back to setuptools packaging specifically so that flit could use it without a dependency loop. The other dependencies for bootstrapping are requests and docutils. There's one other dependency listed, but that can be ignored for bootstrapping. Thomas _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
