[Distutils] Limitations of setup_requires

[Joshua Boverhof]

Yes it is since I'm "generating" code when I do  
"make_generated_packages".


On Oct 1, 2006, at 5:44 PM, Phillip J. Eby wrote:

> At 04:47 PM 9/29/2006 -0700, Joshua Boverhof wrote:
>> I included the "ZSI" package in "setup_requires" and  
>> "install_requires", but it isn't retrieved/installed before I use  
>> it via "make_generated_packages".
>>
>> Here is what I'm doing:
>>
>> class PGDistribution(_Distribution):
>>     """Indirection so that setuptools grabs "setup_requires"  
>> dependencies
>>     before calling "_make_generated_package()"
>>     """
>>     def finalize_options (self):
>>         if _make_generated_package() is True:
>>              self.packages = find_packages()
>>         _Distribution.finalize_options(self)
>
> I don't understand what the purpose of this code is.  find_packages 
> () is not going to give you a different result by being called  
> here, than if you just called it in setup().

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