[Distutils] Using code from a dependency in setup.py

[Robert Collins]

On 30 May 2013 07:33, George V. Reilly <george at reilly.org> wrote:

> Can this be done with Distutils / setuptools /  Distribute?

I believe that setup_requires can do what you want, in principle -
AIUI that describes what modules are needed to run setup correctly :
of course you have to bootstrap manually - but installers can examine
the EGG_INFO once it's created. I suspect only ezsetup does that
though - though I'd be delighted to be wrong.

-Rob

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