[Distutils] RFC: Updating PEP 345

[Tres Seaver]

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Marius Gedminas wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 09:19:13AM -0400, Tres Seaver wrote:
>> There is one more new
>> argument to setup() we should consider, which might be spelled
>> 'build_requires', and which would map onto the 'Requires-External'
>> PKG-INFO field.
> 
> Setuptools has a 'setup_requires' argument to setup().  I don't know if
> the semantics of that one are similar to your proposed 'build_requires'.

Nope:  'build_requires' is something Matthias Klose discussed as being
useful for downstream packagers:  it doesn't refer to Python
distributions, but to external library / tool requriements.


Tres.
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