On 26 Mar, 2013, at 16:21, Tres Seaver <tseaver@palladion.com> wrote:
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On 03/26/2013 05:28 AM, Ronald Oussoren wrote:
On 25 Mar, 2013, at 19:16, PJ Eby <pje@telecommunity.com> wrote:
Also, as far as detecting the need for setuptools, I think that can be done just by noticing whether the PKG-INFO included in an sdist is metadata 2.0 or not. If it is, then setuptools should be explicitly declared as a build-time dependency, otherwise it's not needed. If it's an older metadata version, then you probably need setuptools.
Is it even necessary to automaticly install setuptools? Setuptools-using package are supposed to use ez_setup.py, or distribute_setup.py for distribute, to ensure that the setuptools package is available during setup.
No, they are not. That usage was for bootstrapping in an era when setuptools was not widely presetn. Most packages have *removed* those files today.
I didn't know that, all my project still include the bootstrap code to make it easier to install them in a fresh build of python. The distribute docs still mention that you should use distribute_setup.py (their version of ez_setup.py) in your project. Ronald