<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class=""><br>
</span>So both the abstract build system PEP and donalds setup.py interface<br>
depend on having a bootstrap dependency list written into a file in<br>
the source tree. </blockquote><div><br></div><div>your build PEP said stuff like this "Additional data *may* be included, but the ``build_requires`` and ``metadata_version`` keys must be present"</div><div><br></div><div>that leads me to think you need more than just this specification of a single dependency.</div><div><br></div></div></div></div>