5 May
2016
5 May
'16
12:45 p.m.
On 5 May 2016 at 22:36, Daniel Holth <dholth@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 | ncoghlan@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia