python-daemon 2.0.3 can't be required from other setup.py files

[Ben Finney]

On 14-Jan-2015, Brett Smith wrote:

> The new release of python-daemon installs great—thanks for that. 
> However, it seems like users run into trouble when installing a package
> that depends on it.  Here's the minimal setup.py to reproduce the issue:

Thanks for making a clear test case.

> I think this is happening because python-daemon's setup.py relies on
> unicode_literals.  It looks like when setuptools resolves requirements,
> it  dynamically builds and executes setup.py files, preventing the
> __future__ import from having the desired effect.

That behaviour seems to be a clear bug in Setuptools. Can you please
report this as a bug at <URL:https://bitbucket.org/pypa/setuptools/issues>.

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Ben Finney <ben at benfinney.id.au>
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