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diff --git a/setuptools.txt b/setuptools.txt index d1b25302..93940528 100755 --- a/setuptools.txt +++ b/setuptools.txt @@ -2569,6 +2569,27 @@ A few important points for writing revision control file finders: inform the user of the missing program(s). +A Note Regarding Dependencies +----------------------------- + +If the project *containing* your distutils/setuptools extension(s) depends on +any projects other than setuptools, you *must* also declare those dependencies +as part of your project's ``setup_requires`` keyword, so that they will +already be built (and at least temprorarily installed) before your extension +project is built. + +So, if for example you create a project Foo that includes a new file finder +plugin, and Foo depends on Bar, then you *must* list Bar in both the +``install_requires`` **and** ``setup_requires`` arguments to ``setup()``. + +If you don't do this, then in certain edge cases you may cause setuptools to +try to go into infinite recursion, trying to build your dependencies to resolve +your dependencies, while still building your dependencies. (It probably won't +happen on your development machine, but it *will* happen in a full build +pulling everything from revision control on a clean machine, and then you or +your users will be scratching their heads trying to figure it out!) + + Subclassing ``Command`` ----------------------- @@ -2611,7 +2632,15 @@ XXX Release Notes/Change History ---------------------------- -0.6final +0.6c10 + * Fix for the Python 2.6.3 build_ext API change + + * Ensure C libraries (as opposed to extensions) are also built when doing + bdist_egg + + * Support for SVN 1.6 + +0.6c9 * Fixed a missing files problem when using Windows source distributions on non-Windows platforms, due to distutils not handling manifest file line endings correctly. |