[Distutils] moving things forward (was: wheel including files it shouldn't)

[Chris Barker]

Last post! sorry to have not kept up last night....

> to call the new feature setup_requires but some prefer to eliminate
> > uncertainty by calling it bootstrap_requires.
>
> The main advantage of a new feature name is that when someone searches
> the internet for "python bootstrap_requires", they won't find a
> decade+ worth of inapplicable documentation of the setuptools feature
> :)


new name for sure -- but I don't like bootstrap-requires -- is this
bootstrapping isn't it jsut building?

why not build_requires?

BTW, conda has:

requires:
   build:
   run:
   test:

(I think that's it)

-CHB


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