[Distutils] buildout usage : a setup steps needs access to an installed package

[Jim Fulton]

On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 1:27 PM, Kevin Teague <kevin at bud.ca> wrote:
> "Thou shalt not put thine metadata inside thine data."
>
> The nltk setup.py imports nltk which in turn imports PyYAML, so you can't
> install nltk and it's dependencies until nltk and it's dependencies are
> installed. Ideally you should ask the nltk maintainers to not import the
> thing which they are trying to install, and move their metadata out of the
> nltk package and into setup.py. FWIW, this package won't install w/ pip
> either.
>
> I wasn't aware of the 'setup_requires' option - so I just gave that a try
> with a modified nltk package w/ buildout by making the PyYAML setup
> dependency explicit, but no dice.

Dang.  Well, I guess trying to make that work in buildout is till on
my to-do list.

Jim

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Jim Fulton