[Distutils] setup_requires for dev environments

[Ionel Cristian Mărieș]

On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 10:38 PM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:

> I believe setuptools can already do this (as "setup-requirements.txt"),
> but it's a generated file that people tend not to check into source control.


​Isn't that just some project's convention - they just read it up ​in
setup.py? Setuptools doesn't do anything with it by itself.

Also, if pip were to support a setup-requirements.txt, should setuptools
also support that natively? What about "repository url" dependencies?

Thanks,
-- Ionel Cristian Mărieș, http://blog.ionelmc.ro
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