nose-devs/nose — Issue #38: Make setuptools optional
Author: jpellerin
Created: 2011-12-14 15:56:21+00:00
State: open

Setuptools, great as it is, is not used by or useful for everyone. It
shouldn't be a requirement for nose. To make it optional, a few steps must
be followed:

1. Allow setup.py to fall through to using distutils if ez_setup fails and
setuptools can't be found

2. Provide another means for loading plugins (perhaps setting __PATH__ in
nose.plugins, as twisted does for their plugins)

3. Wrap all usage of setuptools & pkg_resources so that nose doesn't fail
when they aren't available, but instead uses alternate methods or disables
features

Google Code Info:
Issue #: 26
Author: jpelle...@gmail.com
Created On: 2007-01-28T15:51:26.000Z
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