On 18 July 2013 21:41, Donald Stufft <donald@stufft.io> wrote:

Console scripta aren't the only use of entry points fwiw. THere's other entry points programs use. I don't know if they all depend on setuptools or if just assume it's there. Technically the should depend but that would break things for those people.

I think either way pkg_resources is going to need to be installed, but setuptools won't.

If a project uses setuptools features at runtime, it should declare setuptools as a dependency. The difference with script wrappers is that the project didn't write the code, setuptools itself did. Any other use of entry points requires "import pkg_resources" in the user-written code, and should therefore be supported by having setuptools in the runtime dependency list.

Paul