[Distutils] svn tagging setuptools command

[Phillip J. Eby]

At 10:38 AM 8/29/2005 -0500, Ian Bicking wrote:
>Phillip J. Eby wrote:
>>>For instance, if I have a project that uses SQLObject, I would like to 
>>>make the SQLObject admin commands available.  This way I could do things 
>>>like "python setup.py sqlcreate", "python setup.py sqlstatus", etc.  I 
>>>want a single setting in setup.py to add all the commands from 
>>>SQLObject.  But I also don't want every setup.py on the system to have 
>>>these same commands, because they mean nothing for a project that 
>>>doesn't use SQLObject.
>>
>>Yep, this is exactly what the setup_requires keyword is for.  If 
>>SQLObject is the egg with entry points for those commands, then 
>>setup_requires=['SQLObject>=0.7b1'] or whatever will do the trick, to the 
>>point of downloading SQLObject to the setup directory and installing it 
>>there if need be.
>>(Of course, if SQLObject is already on sys.path due to the 
>>easy_install.pth file, then you will get those commands in every project 
>>anyway, but oh well.)
>
>That last part is exactly what I'm trying to avoid.  If every framework 
>starts publishing 1-5 distutils commands -- and I think most frameworks 
>have that potential -- it's going to be a bit overwhelming.  And I don't 
>like that installing SQLObject will needlessly change the entire system's 
>setup.py commands.
>
>If packages listed in setup_requires had extra commands loaded, that would 
>work fine.

Personally, I think the simple way to deal with this is to package 
distutils extensions as  separate packages; e.g. SQLObjectSetup or some such.