[Distutils] Maintaining a curated set of Python packages

[Jeremy Stanley]

On 2016-12-08 10:05:47 -0600 (-0600), Wes Turner wrote:
[...]
> http://docs.openstack.org/developer/pbr/
> 
> - pbr does away with setup.py and install_requires in favor of just
> requirements.txt
[...]

It doesn't entirely "do away with setup.py" (it still relies on a
relatively minimal boilerplate setup.py which loads its setuptools
entrypoint), but does allow you to basically abstract away most
common configuration into declarative setup.cfg and requirements.txt
files (similar to some of the pyproject.toml use cases Donald et al
have for PEP 518).
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Jeremy Stanley