Re: Fwd: Setuptools as a runtime dependency

Mats Wichmann <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.programming.tools.scons.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
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
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