[Distutils] Is there any sense to put setuptools as a requirement?

[PJ Eby]

On Sat, Mar 1, 2014 at 4:47 PM, Jim Fulton <jim at zope.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 6:49 AM, Piotr Dobrogost
> <p at google-groups-2014.dobrogost.net> wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > I've seen people putting 'setuptools' in 'install_requires' in
> > setup.py starting with import from setuptools like this:
> > from setuptools import setup, find_packages
> >
> > Does it make any sense?
> > In what circumstances should 'setuptools' be listed in
> > 'install_requires' or 'setup_requires'?
>
> It makes sense when you use setuptools to implement namespace packages.
>
> So, for example in zope packages, the __init__.py in the zope namespace
> package typically has:
>
>     import pkg_resources
>     pkg_resources.declare_namespace(__name__)
>

It also makes sense if you use entry points, the plugin finder, or any
other pkg_resources features, for that matter.  ;-)  Or if you reuse
setuptools functionality (e.g. easy_install) to install plugins for your
app.

But in general, it only makes sense to depend on setuptools if your actual
project contents (aside from setup.py) are importing things from
pkg_resources or setuptools.
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