[Distutils] Making install a no-op

[Randy Syring]

>
> The way I handled itnin importlib was to version check in setup.py and if
> importlib would be in the stdlib I would use an empty list to represent
> what to install


FWIW, that is also how I have done it in the past.  Conditionally add
install requirements to the list based on the current environment and then
pass that to setup().


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On Sat, Jul 11, 2015 at 12:50 PM, Brett Cannon <brett at python.org> wrote:

> The way I handled itnin importlib was to version check in setup.py and if
> importlib would be in the stdlib I would use an empty list to represent
> what to install. That way users didn't have use markers and need to know
> importlib was in some specific version of Python (basically argparse has
> made people expect backports to just magically work).
>
> On Fri, Jul 10, 2015, 14:38 Ethan Furman <ethan at stoneleaf.us> wrote:
>
>> I have recently received a request to make installing enum34 a no-op on
>> Python3.4 and later so that wheels, etc, don't have to worry about the
>> Python version when dealing with Enum.
>>
>>  From an enum34 point-of-view this makes sense since Enum is in the
>> stdlib in 3.4+, and enum34 has no purpose -- but how?  Is it a simple
>> matter of checking for the Python version and raising
>> SystemExit if enum34 is not needed?
>>
>> --
>> ~Ethan~
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