[Distutils] should setuptools be an implicit dependency of every egg?

[Tres Seaver]

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Jim Fulton wrote:

> These downsides are, in practice, pretty minor.  My main objection is  
> that I don't like encouraging people to be sloppy about  
> dependencies.  The counter argument, of course, is that the standard  
> library is an implicit dependency and we are behaving as if  
> setuptools is part of the standard library.

Perhaps we need a lint-like utility ('candle.py', perhaps :) which
examines a given egg, looking for issues such as imports from packages
which are not in a path synthesized from the egg's dependencies?


Tres.
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