[Distutils] Different purposes for Setuptools requirements versus Pip requirements (was: Maintaining a curated set of Python packages)

[Robert Collins]

On 9 Dec 2016 5:45 PM, "Donald Stufft" <donald at stufft.io> wrote:


On Dec 8, 2016, at 10:41 PM, Ben Finney <ben+python at benfinney.id.au> wrote:

For those who haven't read it, see this post from Donald Stufft for why
those purposes need to be kept distinct


Somewhat funnily, pbr is what triggered me to actually write that post :)

If I recall, at the time it only supported requirements.txt but it’s since
then gotten support for putting it in setup.cfg and I think that is
preferred now?


It always had support for install requires in setup.cfg from its d2to1
heritage.

That said early days of pbr were confused about a bunch of things... It's
much happier and less layer breaking than it was... :)
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