docutils dependency problem in version.py

[Ben Finney]

On 12-Jan-2015, Chet Burgess wrote:

> Further there is a catch-22 in that you can’t process and install
> the dependencies from setup.py because it depends on loading
> version.py, which then requires docutils.

That's only a catch-22 if using the package's own ‘setup.py’ to
install its dependencies. But installing dependencies is not normally
done that way, in part because that catch-22 is common.

> I’m not entirely sure what the pythonic way of fixing this is.

The correct fix (already in VCS and waiting for another version to be
released) is to declare the dependency, upload a new distribution to
PyPI, and then PyPI has the metadata available for package installers.
Those package installers then know to install the dependencies before
beginning with ‘python-daemon’'s install.

My thanks to those reporting this omission.

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Ben Finney <ben at benfinney.id.au>
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