[Distutils] IBM Developerworks setuptools article - example doesnt work ?

[Michael Bayer]

On Oct 30, 2006, at 5:03 PM, Phillip J. Eby wrote:

> Note, however, that if you simply build your main program as a  
> setuptools project, and define its dependencies in your setup.py,  
> then you don't need to worry about any of this; even if there is a  
> default version it can be overridden when the dependency is  
> specified using setuptools.  Most code shouldn't call require() at  
> runtime; it should just declare dependencies in a setup script,  
> making this whole question a nonissue.

that is definitely interesting.  this works independently of whether - 
m was ever used, correct ?