[Distutils] Bazaar support for setuptools

[Phillip J. Eby]

At 07:31 PM 7/20/2007 -0400, Barry Warsaw wrote:
>Would it help if the plugin could fall back to the command line bzr 
>(1) program if bzrlib wasn't installed in your Python?  I've modified
>the code to do this and it seems to work fine either way.  I haven't
>looked, but ISTM that both CVS and Subversion support have to work
>somewhat similarly.  How does setuptools handle things if either cvs 
>(1) or svn(1) weren't available?

It doesn't use them; it just reads CVS/Entries and .svn/entries.


>>You can even declare its dependency on bzrlib and have that
>>automatically installed too, assuming that it's either on the
>>Cheeseshop or you can supply a download link or page with download
>>links in your setup(find_links=[...]).
>
>I don't quite understand this last bit.  Is there documentation on
>the find_links keyword argument?  I couldn't find it.  What I did
>find was dependency_links so I added the following to my setup.py:

Eep, I meant dependency_links.


>I haven't actually tested this part because I can't find
>documentation on instructing 'python setup.py install' to install
>optional packages (is that even possible from the command line?).

Try 'install_requires' instead of 'extras_require'.