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setup.cfg wrongly mentions setuptools in install_requires?

See original GitHub issue

cairocffi does not seem to be using setuptools at runtime, but it’s mentioned in install_requires in setup.cfg, so perhaps it should be removed from there

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Created 3 years ago
Comments:10 (8 by maintainers)

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stephanschielkecommented, Dec 15, 2020

@liZe thanks for the quick reply. We now better understand the issue. In my opinion it is not necessary to explicitly point this out in the documentation. I believe most people use setuptools in a more up to date version. If not they will find this ticket 😃

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liZecommented, Dec 15, 2020

So some version requirement is necessary.

Adding the version requirement in the package doesn’t help, because when pip is launched, it installs setuptools as a dependency but keeps using the previous version while installing cairocffi.

We could add some information in the documentation, if you want.

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