Opened at 2015-07-21T19:04:20Z

Last modified at 2016-03-26T23:17:12Z

#2473 closed enhancement

stop using `setup_requires` on Windows — at Version 1

Reported by: zooko Owned by: daira
Priority: normal Milestone: 1.11.0
Component: packaging Version: 1.10.1
Keywords: setuptools windows Cc:
Launchpad Bug:

Description (last modified by daira)

If we removed the remaining use of setup_requires, which applies only to Windows, I think it would fix at least the following tickets:

  • #2286 (the version of a library chosen for a setup requirement can conflict with a build requirement)
  • #2066 (setup.py performs work without a command being specified)

and it would be the next-step on improving these ones:

  • #2055 (Building tahoe safely is non-trivial)
  • #1220 (build/install should be able to refrain from getting dependencies)
  • #2077 (pip packaging plan)

Change History (1)

comment:1 Changed at 2015-07-21T20:07:52Z by daira

  • Description modified (diff)
  • Keywords windows added
  • Summary changed from stop using `setup_requires` to stop using `setup_requires` on Windows

I think that we should press ahead with #2077 for non-Windows platforms and worry about removing the use of setup_requires on Windows later. This would avoid some thorny problems, including the fact that zetuptoolz does strange things on Windows to support running scripts.

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