Re: Fwd: Setuptools as a runtime dependency
Mats Wichmann <[email protected]>
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On 6/7/22 03:06, Jakub Kulik wrote: > Hi, > > I wanted to ask whether setuptools is really needed during the runtime > (as it's mentioned in install_requires in setup.cfg). I quickly checked > the code base and didn't find anything that needs it. > > This is not a big issue considering that setuptools is available almost > everywhere, but still... It's a legacy holdover, and apparently there's now a PEP that says "don't do that": https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0518/#rationale