Setuptools tried to solve this with a setup_requires argument to Without knowing its own contents which can’t be known programmatically It’s a catch-22 of a file not being runnable There is no standard way to know what those dependencies are in anĪutomated fashion without executing the setup.py file where that Setup.py file without knowing its dependencies, but currently

There was no need to specifyĪny dependency information as the only dependency is Python.īut when a project chooses to use setuptools, the use of an executableįile like setup.py becomes an issue.

To build a distribution of their project. No external dependency that a project maintainer needs to worry about Having the build tool as part of Python means that a setup.py has Isn’t an issue as distutils is part of Python’s standard library. Using an executable file to specify build requirements under distutils Setup.py file that project maintainers executed to buildĭistributions of their software (as well as users to install said To add some features on top of distutils. As time went on, setuptools gained popularity Software for projects, distutils was the chosen

When Python first developed its tooling for building distributions of Will be used for future configuration details). Introduced for software packages to use to specify their buildĭependencies (with the expectation that the same configuration file As part of this specification, a new configuration file is

This PEP specifies how Python software packages should specify whatīuild dependencies they have in order to execute their chosen build Toggle light / dark / auto colour theme PEP 518 – Specifying Minimum Build System Requirements for Python Projects Author : Brett Cannon ,ĭonald Stufft BDFL-Delegate : Nick Coghlan Discussions-To : Distutils-SIG list Status : Final Type : Standards Track Topic : Packaging Created : 1 Post-History : 1, PEP 518 – Specifying Minimum Build System Requirements for Python Projects | Following system colour scheme Selected dark colour scheme Selected light colour scheme Python Enhancement Proposals

Setuptools setup