[Distutils] setup_requires for dev environments

[Daniel Holth]

In other setup_requires old news, a couple of years ago I did an
"autosetuptools" branch of pip which would automatically install
setuptools (if it was not already installed) when installing sdists.
In this case you could think of setuptools as an implicit
setup_requires member. Setuptools would not be installed if only
wheels were being installed.

It might be helpful to think of setuptools-style setup_requires
differently than "must be available before setup.py can run at all"
setup_requires.


On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 11:34 AM, Marcus Smith <qwcode at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> So you *can* import things inside of a setup.py today, you just have
>> to....
>
> I think it's time for the Packaging User Guide to try to cover
> "setup_requires"...