[Scons-users] Fwd: Setuptools as a runtime dependency

[Mats Wichmann]

On 6/7/22 06:48, Mats Wichmann wrote:
> 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
> 

Sigh... I was thinking of setup_requires, rather than install_requires,
when writing this.  Will need a bit of checking (and/or @bddaddog to
comment) but I suspect it's still not needed.