[Distutils] why would you ever need to specify setuptools as a dependency?

[Tres Seaver]

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Hanno Schlichting wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 1:07 PM, Chris Withers <chris at simplistix.co.uk> wrote:
>> Reinout van Rees wrote:
>>> - Do my libraries have to list a dependency on distribute or on
>>> setuptools?
>>>  Everything zopish has a 'setuptools >= 0.6c9' in it.
>> They shouldn't, unless you only require setuptools after your package is
>> installed and don't use it in your setup.py, which seems unlikely.
>>
>> If you need it in your setup.py, what's the point of specifying it? You
>> would have had to use it by the time you specify the requirement!
> 
> I assume most packages Reinout uses (like all zope.* packages) use
> namespace packages. So they actually do depend during runtime on the
> pkg_resources module, which happens to be available from either the
> distribute  or setuptools distribution. So one of them should be
> specified in install_requires.

Why?  Nobody will check / enforce / understand what 'install_requires'
even means except setuptools / distribute.

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