[Distutils] Role of setuptools and eggs in "modern" distributing...

[Tres Seaver]

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On 01/07/2015 07:20 PM, Chris Barker wrote:
> OK -- I just found the --no-deps option. So I can do what I want, but 
> still, I don't think it belongs there and all, and certainly would be 
> better to have the default be no-deps. Let pip (or conda, or...)
> handle that.

Unlike pip (which provides no API), setuptools is a library, used by e.g.
zc.buildout.  The behavior which you find objectionable (installing
dependencies needed to satisfy 'install_requires') is a core part of what
setuptools *does* -- ripping it out (or even changing the default) would
break nearly every other user of setuptools in the world.



Tres.
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