7 * #2582: Simplified build-from-source story by providing bootstrapping metadata in a separate egg-info directory. Build requirements no longer include setuptools itself. Sdist once again includes the pyproject.toml. Project can no longer be installed from source on pip 19.x, but install from source is still supported on pip < 19 and pip >= 20 and install from wheel is still supported with pip >= 9.
11 * #1932: Handled :code:`AttributeError` by raising :code:`DistutilsSetupError` in :code:`dist.check_specifier()` when specifier is not a string -- by :user:`melissa-kun-li`
12 * #2570: Correctly parse cmdclass in setup.cfg.
16 * #2553: Added userguide example for markers in extras_require -- by :user:`pwoolvett`
25 * #1937: Preserved case-sensitivity of keys in setup.cfg so that entry point names are case-sensitive. Changed sensitivity of configparser. NOTE: Any projects relying on case-insensitivity will need to adapt to accept the original case as published. -- by :user:`melissa-kun-li`
26 * #2573: Fixed error in uploading a Sphinx doc with the :code:`upload_docs` command. An html builder will be used.
27 Note: :code:`upload_docs` is deprecated for PyPi, but is supported for other sites -- by :user:`melissa-kun-li`
36 * #1527: Removed bootstrap script. Now Setuptools requires pip or another pep517-compliant builder such as 'build' to build. Now Setuptools can be installed from Github main branch.
45 * #2537: Remove fallback support for fetch_build_eggs using easy_install. Now pip is required for setup_requires to succeed.
46 * #2544: Removed 'easy_install' top-level model (runpy entry point) and 'easy_install' console script.
47 * #2545: Removed support for eggsecutables.
51 * #2459: Tests now run in parallel via pytest-xdist, completing in about half the time. Special thanks to :user:`webknjaz` for hard work implementing test isolation. To run without parallelization, disable the plugin with ``tox -- -p no:xdist``.
60 * #2539: Fix AttributeError in Description validation.
69 * #1390: Validation of Description field now is more lenient, emitting a warning and mangling the value to be valid (replacing newlines with spaces).
78 * #2536: Reverted tag deduplication handling.
87 * #1390: Newlines in metadata description/Summary now trigger a ValueError.
88 * #2481: Define ``create_module()`` and ``exec_module()`` methods in ``VendorImporter``
89 to get rid of ``ImportWarning`` -- by :user:`hroncok`
90 * #2489: ``pkg_resources`` behavior for zipimport now matches the regular behavior, and finds
91 ``.egg-info`` (previoulsy would only find ``.dist-info``) -- by :user:`thatch`
92 * #2529: Fixed an issue where version tags may be added multiple times
101 * #2493: Use importlib.import_module() rather than the deprectated loader.load_module()
102 in pkg_resources namespace delaration -- by :user:`encukou`
104 Documentation changes
105 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
106 * #2525: Fix typo in the document page about entry point. -- by :user:`jtr109`
110 * #2534: Avoid hitting network during test_easy_install.
119 * #2505: Disable inclusion of package data as it causes 'tests' to be included as data.
128 * #2534: Avoid hitting network during test_virtualenv.test_test_command.
137 * #2486: Project adopts jaraco/skeleton for shared package maintenance.
141 * #2477: Restore inclusion of rst files in sdist.
142 * #2484: Setuptools has replaced the master branch with the main branch.
143 * #2485: Fixed failing test when pip 20.3+ is present.
144 -- by :user:`yan12125`
145 * #2487: Fix tests with pytest 6.2
146 -- by :user:`yan12125`
155 * #2435: Require Python 3.6 or later.
157 Documentation changes
158 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
159 * #2430: Fixed inconsistent RST title nesting levels caused by #2399
160 -- by :user:`webknjaz`
161 * #2430: Fixed a typo in Sphinx docs that made docs dev section disappear
162 as a result of PR #2426 -- by :user:`webknjaz`
166 * #2471: Removed the tests that guarantee that the vendored dependencies can be built by distutils.
174 Documentation changes
175 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
176 * #2394: Extended towncrier news template to include change note categories.
177 This allows to see what types of changes a given version introduces
178 -- by :user:`webknjaz`
179 * #2427: Started enforcing strict syntax and reference validation
180 in the Sphinx docs -- by :user:`webknjaz`
181 * #2428: Removed redundant Sphinx ``Makefile`` support -- by :user:`webknjaz`
185 * #2401: Enabled test results reporting in AppVeyor CI
186 -- by :user:`webknjaz`
187 * #2420: Replace Python 3.9.0 beta with 3.9.0 final on GitHub Actions.
188 * #2421: Python 3.9 Trove classifier got added to the dist metadata
189 -- by :user:`webknjaz`
197 Documentation changes
198 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
199 * #2093: Finalized doc revamp.
200 * #2097: doc: simplify index and group deprecated files
201 * #2102: doc overhaul step 2: break main doc into multiple sections
202 * #2111: doc overhaul step 3: update userguide
203 * #2395: Added a ``:user:`` role to Sphinx config -- by :user:`webknjaz`
204 * #2395: Added an illustrative explanation about the change notes to fragments dir -- by :user:`webknjaz`
208 * #2379: Travis CI test suite now tests against PPC64.
209 * #2413: Suppress EOF errors (and other exceptions) when importing lib2to3.
219 * #2368: In distutils, restore support for monkeypatched CCompiler.spawn per pypa/distutils#15.
229 * #2355: When pip is imported as part of a build, leave distutils patched.
230 * #2380: There are some setuptools specific changes in the
231 ``setuptools.command.bdist_rpm`` module that are no longer needed, because
232 they are part of the ``bdist_rpm`` module in distutils in Python
233 3.5.0. Therefore, code was removed from ``setuptools.command.bdist_rpm``.
243 * #2350: Setuptools reverts using the included distutils by default. Platform maintainers and system integrators and others are *strongly* encouraged to set ``SETUPTOOLS_USE_DISTUTILS=local`` to help identify and work through the reported issues with distutils adoption, mainly to file issues and pull requests with pypa/distutils such that distutils performs as needed across every supported environment.
253 * #2363: Restore link_libpython support on Python 3.7 and earlier (see pypa/distutils#9).
263 * #2352: In distutils hack, use absolute import rather than relative to avoid bpo-30876.
273 * #2357: Restored Python 3.5 support in distutils.util for missing ``subprocess._optim_args_from_interpreter_flags``.
274 * #2358: Restored AIX support on Python 3.8 and earlier.
275 * #2361: Add Python 3.10 support to _distutils_hack. Get the 'Loader' abstract class
276 from importlib.abc rather than importlib.util.abc (alias removed in Python
287 * #2232: Once again, Setuptools overrides the stdlib distutils on import. For environments or invocations where this behavior is undesirable, users are provided with a temporary escape hatch. If the environment variable ``SETUPTOOLS_USE_DISTUTILS`` is set to ``stdlib``, Setuptools will fall back to the legacy behavior. Use of this escape hatch is discouraged, but it is provided to ease the transition while proper fixes for edge cases can be addressed.
291 * #2334: In MSVC module, refine text in error message.
301 * #2129: In pkg_resources, no longer detect any pathname ending in .egg as a Python egg. Now the path must be an unpacked egg or a zip file.
311 * #2306: When running as a PEP 517 backend, setuptools does not try to install
312 ``setup_requires`` itself. They are reported as build requirements for the
323 * #2310: Updated vendored packaging version to 20.4.
331 Documentation changes
332 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
333 * #2300: Improve the ``safe_version`` function documentation
337 * #2297: Once again, in stubs prefer exec_module to the deprecated load_module.
347 * #2316: Removed warning when ``distutils`` is imported before ``setuptools`` when ``distutils`` replacement is not enabled.
357 * #2259: Setuptools now provides a .pth file (except for editable installs of setuptools) to the target environment to ensure that when enabled, the setuptools-provided distutils is preferred before setuptools has been imported (and even if setuptools is never imported). Honors the SETUPTOOLS_USE_DISTUTILS environment variable.
367 * #2257: Fixed two flaws in distutils._msvccompiler.MSVCCompiler.spawn.
377 * #2230: Now warn the user when setuptools is imported after distutils modules have been loaded (exempting PyPy for 3.6), directing the users of packages to import setuptools first.
387 * #2212: (Distutils) Allow spawn to accept environment. Avoid monkey-patching global state.
388 * #2249: Fix extension loading technique in stubs.
398 * #2232: In preparation for re-enabling a local copy of distutils, Setuptools now honors an environment variable, SETUPTOOLS_USE_DISTUTILS. If set to 'stdlib' (current default), distutils will be used from the standard library. If set to 'local' (default in a imminent backward-incompatible release), the local copy of distutils will be used.
408 * #2094: Removed pkg_resources.py2_warn module, which is no longer reachable.
418 * #2228: Applied fix for pypa/distutils#3, restoring expectation that spawn will raise a DistutilsExecError when attempting to execute a missing file.
428 * #2228: Disabled distutils adoption for now while emergent issues are addressed.
438 * #2165: Setuptools no longer installs a site.py file during easy_install or develop installs. As a result, .eggs on PYTHONPATH will no longer take precedence over other packages on sys.path. If this issue affects your production environment, please reach out to the maintainers at #2165.
442 * #2137: Removed (private) pkg_resources.RequirementParseError, now replaced by packaging.requirements.InvalidRequirement. Kept the name for compatibility, but users should catch InvalidRequirement instead.
443 * #2180: Update vendored packaging in pkg_resources to 19.2.
447 * #2199: Fix exception causes all over the codebase by using ``raise new_exception from old_exception``
457 * #2143: Setuptools adopts distutils from the Python 3.9 standard library and no longer depends on distutils in the standard library. When importing ``setuptools`` or ``setuptools.distutils_patch``, Setuptools will expose its bundled version as a top-level ``distutils`` package (and unload any previously-imported top-level distutils package), retaining the expectation that ``distutils``' objects are actually Setuptools objects.
458 To avoid getting any legacy behavior from the standard library, projects are advised to always "import setuptools" prior to importing anything from distutils. This behavior happens by default when using ``pip install`` or ``pep517.build``. Workflows that rely on ``setup.py (anything)`` will need to first ensure setuptools is imported. One way to achieve this behavior without modifying code is to invoke Python thus: ``python -c "import setuptools; exec(open('setup.py').read())" (anything)``.
468 * #2071: Replaced references to the deprecated imp package with references to importlib
478 * #1973: Removed ``pkg_resources.py31compat.makedirs`` in favor of the stdlib. Use ``os.makedirs()`` instead.
479 * #2198: Restore ``__requires__`` directive in easy-install wrapper scripts.
489 * #2197: Console script wrapper for editable installs now has a unified template and honors importlib_metadata if present for faster script execution on older Pythons.
493 * #2195: Fix broken entry points generated by easy-install (pip editable installs).
503 * #2194: Editable-installed entry points now load significantly faster on Python versions 3.8+.
504 * #1471: Incidentally fixed by #2194 on Python 3.8 or when importlib_metadata is present.
512 Documentation changes
513 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
514 * #2156: Update mailing list pointer in developer docs
516 Incorporate changes from v44.1.1:
517 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
519 * #2158: Avoid loading working set during ``Distribution.finalize_options`` prior to invoking ``_install_setup_requires``, broken since v42.0.0.
529 * #2158: Avoid loading working set during ``Distribution.finalize_options`` prior to invoking ``_install_setup_requires``, broken since v42.0.0.
539 * #2070: In wheel-to-egg conversion, use simple pkg_resources-style namespace declaration for packages that declare namespace_packages.
549 * #2094: Setuptools now actively crashes under Python 2. Python 3.5 or later is required. Users of Python 2 should use ``setuptools<45``.
553 * #1700: Document all supported keywords by migrating the ones from distutils.
563 * #1753: ``attr:`` now extracts variables through rudimentary examination of the AST,
564 thereby supporting modules with third-party imports. If examining the AST
565 fails to find the variable, ``attr:`` falls back to the old behavior of
566 importing the module. Works on Python 3 only.
572 No significant changes.
582 * #2089: Package index functionality no longer attempts to remove an md5 fragment from the index URL. This functionality, added for distribute #163 is no longer relevant.
586 * #2041: Preserve file modes during pkg files copying, but clear read only flag for target afterwards.
587 * #2105: Filter ``2to3`` deprecation warnings from ``TestDevelop.test_2to3_user_mode``.
597 * #2040: Deprecated the ``bdist_wininst`` command. Binary packages should be built as wheels instead.
598 * #2062: Change 'Mac OS X' to 'macOS' in code.
599 * #2075: Stop recognizing files ending with ``.dist-info`` as distribution metadata.
600 * #2086: Deprecate 'use_2to3' functionality. Packagers are encouraged to use single-source solutions or build tool chains to manage conversions outside of setuptools.
602 Documentation changes
603 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
604 * #1698: Added documentation for ``build_meta`` (a bare minimum, not completed).
608 * #2082: Filter ``lib2to3`` ``PendingDeprecationWarning`` and ``DeprecationWarning`` in tests,
609 because ``lib2to3`` is `deprecated in Python 3.9 <https://bugs.python.org/issue40360>`_.
615 No significant changes.
625 * #1458: Added template for reporting Python 2 incompatibilities.
631 No significant changes.
641 * #308: Allow version number normalization to be bypassed by wrapping in a 'setuptools.sic()' call.
642 * #1424: Prevent keeping files mode for package_data build. It may break a build if user's package data has read only flag.
643 * #1431: In ``easy_install.check_site_dir``, ensure the installation directory exists.
644 * #1563: In ``pkg_resources`` prefer ``find_spec`` (PEP 451) to ``find_module``.
646 Incorporate changes from v44.1.0:
647 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
649 * #1704: Set sys.argv[0] in setup script run by build_meta.__legacy__
650 * #1959: Fix for Python 4: replace unsafe six.PY3 with six.PY2
651 * #1994: Fixed a bug in the "setuptools.finalize_distribution_options" hook that lead to ignoring the order attribute of entry points managed by this hook.
661 * #1704: Set sys.argv[0] in setup script run by build_meta.__legacy__
662 * #1959: Fix for Python 4: replace unsafe six.PY3 with six.PY2
663 * #1994: Fixed a bug in the "setuptools.finalize_distribution_options" hook that lead to ignoring the order attribute of entry points managed by this hook.
673 * #65: Once again as in 3.0, removed the Features feature.
677 * #1890: Fix vendored dependencies so importing ``setuptools.extern.some_module`` gives the same object as ``setuptools._vendor.some_module``. This makes Metadata picklable again.
678 * #1899: Test suite now fails on warnings.
680 Documentation changes
681 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
682 * #2011: Fix broken link to distutils docs on package_data
686 * #1991: Include pkg_resources test data in sdist, so tests can be executed from it.
696 * #1557: Deprecated eggsecutable scripts and updated docs.
697 * #1904: Update msvc.py to use CPython 3.8.0 mechanism to find msvc 14+
707 * #1905: Fixed defect in _imp, introduced in 41.6.0 when the 'tests' directory is not present.
708 * #1941: Improve editable installs with PEP 518 build isolation:
710 * The ``--user`` option is now always available. A warning is issued if the user site directory is not available.
711 * The error shown when the install directory is not in ``PYTHONPATH`` has been turned into a warning.
712 * #1981: Setuptools now declares its ``tests`` and ``docs`` dependencies in metadata (extras).
713 * #1985: Add support for installing scripts in environments where bdist_wininst is missing (i.e. Python 3.9).
717 * #1968: Add flake8-2020 to check for misuse of sys.version or sys.version_info.
727 * #1458: Add minimum sunset date and preamble to Python 2 warning.
728 * #1704: Set sys.argv[0] in setup script run by build_meta.__legacy__
729 * #1974: Add Python 3 Only Trove Classifier and remove universal wheel declaration for more complete transition from Python 2.
739 * #1458: Drop support for Python 2. Setuptools now requires Python 3.5 or later. Install setuptools using pip >=9 or pin to Setuptools <45 to maintain 2.7 support.
743 * #1959: Fix for Python 4: replace unsafe six.PY3 with six.PY2
753 * #1908: Drop support for Python 3.4.
763 * #1634: Include ``pyproject.toml`` in source distribution by default. Projects relying on the previous behavior where ``pyproject.toml`` was excluded by default should stop relying on that behavior or add ``exclude pyproject.toml`` to their MANIFEST.in file.
767 * #1927: Setuptools once again declares 'setuptools' in the ``build-system.requires`` and adds PEP 517 build support by declaring itself as the ``build-backend``. It additionally specifies ``build-system.backend-path`` to rely on itself for those builders that support it.
776 * #1921: Fix support for easy_install's ``find-links`` option in ``setup.cfg``.
777 * #1922: Build dependencies (setup_requires and tests_require) now install transitive dependencies indicated by extras.
787 * #1918: Fix regression in handling wheels compatibility tags.
797 * #1830, #1909: Mark the easy_install script and setuptools command as deprecated, and use `pip <https://pip.pypa.io/en/stable/>`_ when available to fetch/build wheels for missing ``setup_requires``/``tests_require`` requirements, with the following differences in behavior:
798 * support for ``python_requires``
799 * better support for wheels (proper handling of priority with respect to PEP 425 tags)
800 * PEP 517/518 support
801 * eggs are not supported
802 * no support for the ``allow_hosts`` easy_install option (``index_url``/``find_links`` are still honored)
803 * pip environment variables are honored (and take precedence over easy_install options)
804 * #1898: Removed the "upload" and "register" commands in favor of `twine <https://pypi.org/p/twine>`_.
808 * #1767: Add support for the ``license_files`` option in ``setup.cfg`` to automatically
809 include multiple license files in a source distribution.
810 * #1829: Update handling of wheels compatibility tags:
811 * add support for manylinux2010
812 * fix use of removed 'm' ABI flag in Python 3.8 on Windows
813 * #1861: Fix empty namespace package installation from wheel.
814 * #1877: Setuptools now exposes a new entry point hook "setuptools.finalize_distribution_options", enabling plugins like `setuptools_scm <https://pypi.org/project/setuptools_scm>`_ to configure options on the distribution at finalization time.
824 * #479: Replace usage of deprecated ``imp`` module with local re-implementation in ``setuptools._imp``.
834 * #1891: Fix code for detecting Visual Studio's version on Windows under Python 2.
844 * #1811: Improve Visual C++ 14.X support, mainly for Visual Studio 2017 and 2019.
845 * #1814: Fix ``pkg_resources.Requirement`` hash/equality implementation: take PEP 508 direct URL into account.
846 * #1824: Fix tests when running under ``python3.10``.
847 * #1878: Formally deprecated the ``test`` command, with the recommendation that users migrate to ``tox``.
849 Documentation changes
850 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
851 * #1860: Update documentation to mention the egg format is not supported by pip and dependency links support was dropped starting with pip 19.0.
852 * #1862: Drop ez_setup documentation: deprecated for some time (last updated in 2016), and still relying on easy_install (deprecated too).
853 * #1868: Drop most documentation references to (deprecated) EasyInstall.
854 * #1884: Added a trove classifier to document support for Python 3.8.
858 * #1886: Added Python 3.8 release to the Travis test matrix.
868 * #1847: In declarative config, now traps errors when invalid ``python_requires`` values are supplied.
878 * #1690: When storing extras, rely on OrderedSet to retain order of extras as indicated by the packager, which will also be deterministic on Python 2.7 (with PYTHONHASHSEED unset) and Python 3.6+.
882 * #1858: Fixed failing integration test triggered by 'long_description_content_type' in packaging.
892 * #479: Remove some usage of the deprecated ``imp`` module.
896 * #1565: Changed html_sidebars from string to list of string as per
897 https://www.sphinx-doc.org/en/master/changes.html#id58
907 * #1697: Moved most of the constants from setup.py to setup.cfg
908 * #1749: Fixed issue with the PEP 517 backend where building a source distribution would fail if any tarball existed in the destination directory.
909 * #1750: Fixed an issue with PEP 517 backend where wheel builds would fail if the destination directory did not already exist.
910 * #1756: Force metadata-version >= 1.2. when project urls are present.
911 * #1769: Improve ``package_data`` check: ensure the dictionary values are lists/tuples of strings.
912 * #1788: Changed compatibility fallback logic for ``html.unescape`` to avoid accessing ``HTMLParser.unescape`` when not necessary. ``HTMLParser.unescape`` is deprecated and will be removed in Python 3.9.
913 * #1790: Added the file path to the error message when a ``UnicodeDecodeError`` occurs while reading a metadata file.
915 Documentation changes
916 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
917 * #1776: Use license classifiers rather than the license field.
927 * #1671: Fixed issue with the PEP 517 backend that prevented building a wheel when the ``dist/`` directory contained existing ``.whl`` files.
928 * #1709: In test.paths_on_python_path, avoid adding unnecessary duplicates to the PYTHONPATH.
929 * #1741: In package_index, now honor "current directory" during a checkout of git and hg repositories under Windows
939 * #1735: When parsing setup.cfg files, setuptools now requires the files to be encoded as UTF-8. Any other encoding will lead to a UnicodeDecodeError. This change removes support for specifying an encoding using a 'coding: ' directive in the header of the file, a feature that was introduces in 40.7. Given the recent release of the aforementioned feature, it is assumed that few if any projects are utilizing the feature to specify an encoding other than UTF-8.
949 * #1675: Added support for ``setup.cfg``-only projects when using the ``setuptools.build_meta`` backend. Projects that have enabled PEP 517 no longer need to have a ``setup.py`` and can use the purely declarative ``setup.cfg`` configuration file instead.
950 * #1720: Added support for ``pkg_resources.parse_requirements``-style requirements in ``setup_requires`` when ``setup.py`` is invoked from the ``setuptools.build_meta`` build backend.
951 * #1664: Added the path to the ``PKG-INFO`` or ``METADATA`` file in the exception
952 text when the ``Version:`` header can't be found.
954 Documentation changes
955 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
956 * #1705: Removed some placeholder documentation sections referring to deprecated features.
966 * #1652: Added the ``build_meta:__legacy__`` backend, a "compatibility mode" PEP 517 backend that can be used as the default when ``build-backend`` is left unspecified in ``pyproject.toml``.
967 * #1635: Resource paths are passed to ``pkg_resources.resource_string`` and similar no longer accept paths that traverse parents, that begin with a leading ``/``. Violations of this expectation raise DeprecationWarnings and will become errors. Additionally, any paths that are absolute on Windows are strictly disallowed and will raise ValueErrors.
968 * #1536: ``setuptools`` will now automatically include licenses if ``setup.cfg`` contains a ``license_file`` attribute, unless this file is manually excluded inside ``MANIFEST.in``.
978 * #1670: In package_index, revert to using a copy of splituser from Python 3.8. Attempts to use ``urllib.parse.urlparse`` led to problems as reported in #1663 and #1668. This change serves as an alternative to #1499 and fixes #1668.
988 * #1666: Restore port in URL handling in package_index.
998 * #1660: On Python 2, when reading config files, downcast options from text to bytes to satisfy distutils expectations.
1008 * #1551: File inputs for the ``license`` field in ``setup.cfg`` files now explicitly raise an error.
1012 * #1180: Add support for non-ASCII in setup.cfg (#1062). Add support for native strings on some parameters (#1136).
1013 * #1499: ``setuptools.package_index`` no longer relies on the deprecated ``urllib.parse.splituser`` per Python #27485.
1014 * #1544: Added tests for PackageIndex.download (for git URLs).
1015 * #1625: In PEP 517 build_meta builder, ensure that sdists are built as gztar per the spec.
1025 * #1594: PEP 517 backend no longer declares setuptools as a dependency as it can be assumed.
1035 * #1592: Fix invalid dependency on external six module (instead of vendored version).
1045 * #1590: Fixed regression where packages without ``author`` or ``author_email`` fields generated malformed package metadata.
1055 * #1541: Officially deprecated the ``requires`` parameter in ``setup()``.
1059 * #1519: In ``pkg_resources.normalize_path``, additional path normalization is now performed to ensure path values to a directory is always the same, preventing false positives when checking scripts have a consistent prefix to set up on Windows.
1060 * #1545: Changed the warning class of all deprecation warnings; deprecation warning classes are no longer derived from ``DeprecationWarning`` and are thus visible by default.
1061 * #1554: ``build_meta.build_sdist`` now includes ``setup.py`` in source distributions by default.
1062 * #1576: Started monkey-patching ``get_metadata_version`` and ``read_pkg_file`` onto ``distutils.DistributionMetadata`` to retain the correct version on the ``PKG-INFO`` file in the (deprecated) ``upload`` command.
1064 Documentation changes
1065 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
1066 * #1395: Changed Pyrex references to Cython in the documentation.
1067 * #1456: Documented that the ``rpmbuild`` packages is required for the ``bdist_rpm`` command.
1068 * #1537: Documented how to use ``setup.cfg`` for ``src/ layouts``
1069 * #1539: Added minimum version column in ``setup.cfg`` metadata table.
1070 * #1552: Fixed a minor typo in the python 2/3 compatibility documentation.
1071 * #1553: Updated installation instructions to point to ``pip install`` instead of ``ez_setup.py``.
1072 * #1560: Updated ``setuptools`` distribution documentation to remove some outdated information.
1073 * #1564: Documented ``setup.cfg`` minimum version for version and project_urls.
1077 * #1533: Restricted the ``recursive-include setuptools/_vendor`` to contain only .py and .txt files.
1078 * #1572: Added the ``concurrent.futures`` backport ``futures`` to the Python 2.7 test suite requirements.
1088 * #1335: In ``pkg_resources.normalize_path``, fix issue on Cygwin when cwd contains symlinks.
1089 * #1502: Deprecated support for downloads from Subversion in package_index/easy_install.
1090 * #1517: Dropped use of six.u in favor of ``u""`` literals.
1091 * #1520: Added support for ``data_files`` in ``setup.cfg``.
1093 Documentation changes
1094 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
1095 * #1525: Fixed rendering of the deprecation warning in easy_install doc.
1105 * #1480: Bump vendored pyparsing in pkg_resources to 2.2.1.
1115 * #1497: Updated gitignore in repo.
1125 * #1480: Bump vendored pyparsing to 2.2.1.
1135 * #1481: Join the sdist ``--dist-dir`` and the ``build_meta`` sdist directory argument to point to the same target (meaning the build frontend no longer needs to clean manually the dist dir to avoid multiple sdist presence, and setuptools no longer needs to handle conflicts between the two).
1145 * #1402: Fixed a bug with namespace packages under Python 3.6 when one package in
1146 current directory hides another which is installed.
1147 * #1427: Set timestamp of ``.egg-info`` directory whenever ``egg_info`` command is run.
1148 * #1474: ``build_meta.get_requires_for_build_sdist`` now does not include the ``wheel`` package anymore.
1149 * #1486: Suppress warnings in pkg_resources.handle_ns.
1153 * #1479: Remove internal use of six.binary_type.
1163 * #1466: Fix handling of Unicode arguments in PEP 517 backend
1173 * #1465: Fix regression with ``egg_info`` command when tagging is used.
1183 * #1410: Deprecated ``upload`` and ``register`` commands.
1184 * #1312: Introduced find_namespace_packages() to find PEP 420 namespace packages.
1185 * #1420: Added find_namespace: directive to config parser.
1186 * #1418: Solved race in when creating egg cache directories.
1187 * #1450: Upgraded vendored PyParsing from 2.1.10 to 2.2.0.
1188 * #1451: Upgraded vendored appdirs from 1.4.0 to 1.4.3.
1189 * #1388: Fixed "Microsoft Visual C++ Build Tools" link in exception when Visual C++ not found.
1190 * #1389: Added support for scripts which have unicode content.
1191 * #1416: Moved several Python version checks over to using ``six.PY2`` and ``six.PY3``.
1195 * #1441: Removed spurious executable permissions from files that don't need them.
1205 * #1342: Drop support for Python 3.3.
1209 * #1366: In package_index, fixed handling of encoded entities in URLs.
1210 * #1383: In pkg_resources VendorImporter, avoid removing packages imported from the root.
1212 Documentation changes
1213 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
1214 * #1379: Minor doc fixes after actually using the new release process.
1215 * #1385: Removed section on non-package data files.
1216 * #1403: Fix developer's guide.
1220 * #1404: Fix PEP 518 configuration: set build requirements in ``pyproject.toml`` to ``["wheel"]``.
1230 * #1359: Support using "file:" to load a PEP 440-compliant package version from
1232 * #1360: Fixed issue with a mismatch between the name of the package and the
1233 name of the .dist-info file in wheel files
1234 * #1364: Add ``__dir__()`` implementation to ``pkg_resources.Distribution()`` that
1235 includes the attributes in the ``_provider`` instance variable.
1236 * #1365: Take the package_dir option into account when loading the version from
1239 Documentation changes
1240 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
1241 * #1353: Added coverage badge to README.
1242 * #1356: Made small fixes to the developer guide documentation.
1243 * #1357: Fixed warnings in documentation builds and started enforcing that the
1244 docs build without warnings in tox.
1245 * #1376: Updated release process docs.
1249 * #1343: The ``setuptools`` specific ``long_description_content_type``,
1250 ``project_urls`` and ``provides_extras`` fields are now set consistently
1251 after any ``distutils`` ``setup_keywords`` calls, allowing them to override
1253 * #1352: Added ``tox`` environment for documentation builds.
1254 * #1354: Added ``towncrier`` for changelog management.
1255 * #1355: Add PR template.
1256 * #1368: Fixed tests which failed without network connectivity.
1257 * #1369: Added unit tests for PEP 425 compatibility tags support.
1258 * #1372: Stop testing Python 3.3 in Travis CI, now that the latest version of
1259 ``wheel`` no longer installs on it.
1264 * #1340: Update all PyPI URLs to reflect the switch to the
1265 new Warehouse codebase.
1266 * #1337: In ``pkg_resources``, now support loading resources
1267 for modules loaded by the ``SourcelessFileLoader``.
1268 * #1332: Silence spurious wheel related warnings on Windows.
1273 * #1297: Restore Unicode handling for Maintainer fields in
1279 * #1296: Setuptools now vendors its own direct dependencies, no
1280 longer relying on the dependencies as vendored by pkg_resources.
1282 * #296: Removed long-deprecated support for iteration on
1283 Version objects as returned by ``pkg_resources.parse_version``.
1284 Removed the ``SetuptoolsVersion`` and
1285 ``SetuptoolsLegacyVersion`` names as well. They should not
1286 have been used, but if they were, replace with
1287 ``Version`` and ``LegacyVersion`` from ``packaging.version``.
1292 * #1288: Add support for maintainer in PKG-INFO.
1297 * #1292: Avoid generating ``Provides-Extra`` in metadata when
1298 no extra is present (but environment markers are).
1303 * #1286: Add support for Metadata 2.1 (PEP 566).
1308 * #1285: Fixed RuntimeError in pkg_resources.parse_requirements
1309 on Python 3.7 (stemming from PEP 479).
1314 * #1271: Revert to Cython legacy ``build_ext`` behavior for
1320 * #1229: Expand imports in ``build_ext`` to refine detection of
1321 Cython availability.
1323 * #1270: When Cython is available, ``build_ext`` now uses the
1329 * #1257: In bdist_egg.scan_module, fix ValueError on Python 3.7.
1334 * #1231: Removed warning when PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE is enabled.
1339 * #1210: Add support for PEP 345 Project-URL metadata.
1340 * #1207: Add support for ``long_description_type`` to setup.cfg
1341 declarative config as intended and documented.
1346 * #1232: Fix trailing slash handling in ``pkg_resources.ZipProvider``.
1351 * #1220: Fix ``data_files`` handling when installing from wheel.
1356 * fix Travis' Python 3.3 job.
1361 * #1214: fix handling of namespace packages when installing
1367 * #1212: fix encoding handling of metadata when installing
1373 * #1200: easy_install now support installing from wheels:
1374 they will be installed as standalone unzipped eggs.
1379 * #1208: Improve error message when failing to locate scripts
1380 in egg-info metadata.
1385 * #458: In order to support deterministic builds, Setuptools no
1386 longer allows packages to declare ``install_requires`` as
1387 unordered sequences (sets or dicts).
1392 * #878: Drop support for Python 2.6. Python 2.6 users should
1393 rely on 'setuptools < 37dev'.
1398 * #1190: In SSL support for package index operations, use SNI
1404 * #1175: Bug fixes to ``build_meta`` module.
1409 * #701: Fixed duplicate test discovery on Python 3.
1414 * #1193: Avoid test failures in bdist_egg when
1415 PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE is set.
1420 * #1054: Support ``setup_requires`` in ``setup.cfg`` files.
1425 * #1132: Removed redundant and costly serialization/parsing step
1426 in ``EntryPoint.__init__``.
1428 * #844: ``bdist_egg --exclude-source-files`` now tested and works
1434 * #1143: Added ``setuptools.build_meta`` module, an implementation
1435 of PEP-517 for Setuptools-defined packages.
1437 * #1143: Added ``dist_info`` command for producing dist_info
1443 * #170: When working with Mercurial checkouts, use Windows-friendly
1444 syntax for suppressing output.
1446 * Inspired by #1134, performed substantial refactoring of
1447 ``pkg_resources.find_on_path`` to facilitate an optimization
1448 for paths with many non-version entries.
1453 * #1075: Add new ``Description-Content-Type`` metadata field. `See here for
1454 documentation on how to use this field.
1455 <https://packaging.python.org/specifications/#description-content-type>`_
1457 * #1068: Sort files and directories when building eggs for
1458 deterministic order.
1460 * #196: Remove caching of easy_install command in fetch_build_egg.
1461 Fixes issue where ``pytest-runner-N.N`` would satisfy the installation
1464 * #1129: Fix working set dependencies handling when replacing conflicting
1465 distributions (e.g. when using ``setup_requires`` with a conflicting
1466 transitive dependency, fix #1124).
1468 * #1133: Improved handling of README files extensions and added
1469 Markdown to the list of searched READMES.
1471 * #1135: Improve performance of pkg_resources import by not invoking
1472 ``access`` or ``stat`` and using ``os.listdir`` instead.
1477 * #1131: Make possible using several files within ``file:`` directive
1478 in metadata.long_description in ``setup.cfg``.
1483 * fix #1105: Fix handling of requirements with environment
1484 markers when declared in ``setup.cfg`` (same treatment as
1490 * #462: Don't assume a directory is an egg by the ``.egg``
1496 * #1093: Fix test command handler with extras_require.
1497 * #1112, #1091, #1115: Now using Trusty containers in
1498 Travis for CI and CD.
1503 * #1092: ``pkg_resources`` now uses ``inspect.getmro`` to
1504 resolve classes in method resolution order.
1509 * #1102: Restore behavior for empty extras.
1514 * #1099: Revert commit a3ec721, restoring intended purpose of
1515 extras as part of a requirement declaration.
1522 * support extras specifiers in install_requires requirements
1527 * #1081: Environment markers indicated in ``install_requires``
1528 are now processed and treated as nameless ``extras_require``
1529 with markers, allowing their metadata in requires.txt to be
1530 correctly generated.
1532 * #1053: Tagged commits are now released using Travis-CI
1533 build stages, meaning releases depend on passing tests on
1534 all supported Python versions (Linux) and not just the latest
1540 * #1083: Correct ``py31compat.makedirs`` to correctly honor
1541 ``exist_ok`` parameter.
1542 * #1083: Also use makedirs compatibility throughout setuptools.
1547 * #1083: Avoid race condition on directory creation in
1548 ``pkg_resources.ensure_directory``.
1550 * Removed deprecation of and restored support for
1551 ``upload_docs`` command for sites other than PyPI.
1552 Only warehouse is dropping support, but services like
1553 `devpi <http://doc.devpi.net/latest/>`_ continue to
1554 support docs built by setuptools' plugins. See
1555 `this comment <https://bitbucket.org/hpk42/devpi/issues/388/support-rtd-model-for-building-uploading#comment-34292423>`_
1556 for more context on the motivation for this change.
1561 * #1042: Fix import in py27compat module that still
1562 referenced six directly, rather than through the externs
1563 module (vendored packages hook).
1568 * #980 and others: Once again, Setuptools vendors all
1569 of its dependencies. It seems to be the case that in
1570 the Python ecosystem, all build tools must run without
1571 any dependencies (build, runtime, or otherwise). At
1572 such a point that a mechanism exists that allows
1573 build tools to have dependencies, Setuptools will adopt
1579 * #1015: Fix test failures on Python 3.7.
1581 * #1024: Add workaround for Jython #2581 in monkey module.
1586 * #992: Revert change introduced in v34.4.1, now
1589 * #1016: Revert change introduced in v35.0.0 per #1014,
1590 referencing #436. The approach had unintended
1591 consequences, causing sdist installs to be missing
1597 * #436: In egg_info.manifest_maker, no longer read
1598 the file list from the manifest file, and instead
1599 re-build it on each build. In this way, files removed
1600 from the specification will not linger in the manifest.
1601 As a result, any files manually added to the manifest
1602 will be removed on subsequent egg_info invocations.
1603 No projects should be manually adding files to the
1604 manifest and should instead use MANIFEST.in or SCM
1605 file finders to force inclusion of files in the manifest.
1610 * #1008: In MSVC support, use always the last version available for Windows SDK and UCRT SDK.
1612 * #1008: In MSVC support, fix "vcruntime140.dll" returned path with Visual Studio 2017.
1614 * #992: In msvc.msvc9_query_vcvarsall, ensure the
1615 returned dicts have str values and not Unicode for
1616 compatibility with os.environ.
1621 * #995: In MSVC support, add support for "Microsoft Visual Studio 2017" and "Microsoft Visual Studio Build Tools 2017".
1623 * #999 via #1007: Extend support for declarative package
1624 config in a setup.cfg file to include the options
1625 ``python_requires`` and ``py_modules``.
1630 * #967 (and #997): Explicitly import submodules of
1631 packaging to account for environments where the imports
1632 of those submodules is not implied by other behavior.
1637 * #993: Fix documentation upload by correcting
1638 rendering of content-type in _build_multipart
1644 * #988: Trap ``os.unlink`` same as ``os.remove`` in
1645 ``auto_chmod`` error handler.
1647 * #983: Fixes to invalid escape sequence deprecations on
1653 * #941: In the upload command, if the username is blank,
1654 default to ``getpass.getuser()``.
1656 * #971: Correct distutils findall monkeypatch to match
1657 appropriate versions (namely Python 3.4.6).
1662 * #966: Add support for reading dist-info metadata and
1663 thus locating Distributions from zip files.
1665 * #968: Allow '+' and '!' in egg fragments
1666 so that it can take package names that contain
1667 PEP 440 conforming version specifiers.
1672 * #953: More aggressively employ the compatibility issue
1673 originally added in #706.
1678 * #930: ``build_info`` now accepts two new parameters
1679 to optimize and customize the building of C libraries.
1684 * #947: Loosen restriction on the version of six required,
1685 restoring compatibility with environments relying on
1686 six 1.6.0 and later.
1691 * #882: Ensure extras are honored when building the
1693 * #913: Fix issue in develop if package directory has
1699 * #935: Fix glob syntax in graft.
1704 * #581: Instead of vendoring the growing list of
1705 dependencies that Setuptools requires to function,
1706 Setuptools now requires these dependencies just like
1707 any other project. Unlike other projects, however,
1708 Setuptools cannot rely on ``setup_requires`` to
1709 demand the dependencies it needs to install because
1710 its own machinery would be necessary to pull those
1711 dependencies if not present (a bootstrapping problem).
1712 As a result, Setuptools no longer supports self upgrade or
1713 installation in the general case. Instead, users are
1714 directed to use pip to install and upgrade using the
1715 ``wheel`` distributions of setuptools.
1717 Users are welcome to contrive other means to install
1718 or upgrade Setuptools using other means, such as
1719 pre-installing the Setuptools dependencies with pip
1720 or a bespoke bootstrap tool, but such usage is not
1721 recommended and is not supported.
1723 As discovered in #940, not all versions of pip will
1724 successfully install Setuptools from its pre-built
1725 wheel. If you encounter issues with "No module named
1726 six" or "No module named packaging", especially
1727 following a line "Running setup.py egg_info for package
1728 setuptools", then your pip is not new enough.
1730 There's an additional issue in pip where setuptools
1731 is upgraded concurrently with other source packages,
1732 described in pip #4253. The proposed workaround is to
1733 always upgrade Setuptools first prior to upgrading
1734 other packages that would upgrade Setuptools.
1739 * #921: Correct issue where certifi fallback not being
1745 Installation via pip, as indicated in the `Python Packaging
1746 User's Guide <https://packaging.python.org/installing/>`_,
1747 is the officially-supported mechanism for installing
1748 Setuptools, and this recommendation is now explicit in the
1749 much more concise README.
1751 Other edits and tweaks were made to the documentation. The
1752 codebase is unchanged.
1757 * #619: Removed support for the ``tag_svn_revision``
1758 distribution option. If Subversion tagging support is
1759 still desired, consider adding the functionality to
1760 setuptools_svn in setuptools_svn #2.
1765 * #866: Use ``dis.Bytecode`` on Python 3.4 and later in
1766 ``setuptools.depends``.
1771 * #889: Backport proposed fix for disabling interpolation in
1772 distutils.Distribution.parse_config_files.
1777 * #884: Restore support for running the tests under
1778 `pytest-runner <https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest-runner>`_
1779 by ensuring that PYTHONPATH is honored in tests invoking
1785 * #706: Add rmtree compatibility shim for environments where
1786 rmtree fails when passed a unicode string.
1791 * #893: Only release sdist in zip format as warehouse now
1792 disallows releasing two different formats.
1797 * #704: More selectively ensure that 'rmtree' is not invoked with
1798 a byte string, enabling it to remove files that are non-ascii,
1801 * #712: In 'sandbox.run_setup', ensure that ``__file__`` is
1802 always a ``str``, modeling the behavior observed by the
1803 interpreter when invoking scripts and modules.
1808 * #891: In 'test' command on test failure, raise DistutilsError,
1809 suppression invocation of subsequent commands.
1814 * #890: Revert #849. ``global-exclude .foo`` will not match all
1815 ``*.foo`` files any more. Package authors must add an explicit
1816 wildcard, such as ``global-exclude *.foo``, to match all
1817 ``.foo`` files. See #886, #849.
1822 * #885: Fix regression where 'pkg_resources._rebuild_mod_path'
1823 would fail when a namespace package's '__path__' was not
1824 a list with a sort attribute.
1829 * #250: Install '-nspkg.pth' files for packages installed
1830 with 'setup.py develop'. These .pth files allow
1831 namespace packages installed by pip or develop to
1832 co-mingle. This change required the removal of the
1833 change for #805 and pip #1924, introduced in 28.3.0 and implicated
1834 in #870, but means that namespace packages not in a
1835 site packages directory will no longer work on Python
1836 earlier than 3.5, whereas before they would work on
1837 Python not earlier than 3.3.
1842 * #879: For declarative config:
1844 - read_configuration() now accepts ignore_option_errors argument. This allows scraping tools to read metadata without a need to download entire packages. E.g. we can gather some stats right from GitHub repos just by downloading setup.cfg.
1846 - packages find: directive now supports fine tuning from a subsection. The same arguments as for find() are accepted.
1851 * #394 via #862: Added support for `declarative package
1852 config in a setup.cfg file
1853 <https://setuptools.readthedocs.io/en/latest/setuptools.html#configuring-setup-using-setup-cfg-files>`_.
1858 * #850: In test command, invoke unittest.main with
1859 indication not to exit the process.
1864 * #854: Bump to vendored Packaging 16.8.
1869 * #846: Also trap 'socket.error' when opening URLs in
1872 * #849: Manifest processing now matches the filename
1873 pattern anywhere in the filename and not just at the
1874 start. Restores behavior found prior to 28.5.0.
1879 * #864: Drop support for Python 3.2. Systems requiring
1880 Python 3.2 support must use 'setuptools < 30'.
1882 * #825: Suppress warnings for single files.
1884 * #830 via #843: Once again restored inclusion of data
1885 files to sdists, but now trap TypeError caused by
1886 techniques employed rjsmin and similar.
1891 * #861: Re-release of v29.0.1 with the executable script
1892 launchers bundled. Now, launchers are included by default
1893 and users that want to disable this behavior must set the
1894 environment variable
1895 'SETUPTOOLS_INSTALL_WINDOWS_SPECIFIC_FILES' to
1896 a false value like "false" or "0".
1901 * #841: Drop special exception for packages invoking
1902 win32com during the build/install process. See
1903 Distribute #118 for history.
1908 * #629: Per the discussion, refine the sorting to use version
1909 value order for more accurate detection of the latest
1910 available version when scanning for packages. See also
1913 * #837: Rely on the config var "SO" for Python 3.3.0 only
1914 when determining the ext filename.
1919 * #827: Update PyPI root for dependency links.
1921 * #833: Backed out changes from #830 as the implementation
1922 seems to have problems in some cases.
1927 * #832: Moved much of the namespace package handling
1928 functionality into a separate module for re-use in something
1930 * #830: ``sdist`` command no longer suppresses the inclusion
1931 of data files, re-aligning with the expectation of distutils
1932 and addressing #274 and #521.
1937 * #816: Fix manifest file list order in tests.
1942 * #629: When scanning for packages, ``pkg_resources`` now
1943 ignores empty egg-info directories and gives precedence to
1944 packages whose versions are lexicographically greatest,
1945 a rough approximation for preferring the latest available
1951 * #810: Tests are now invoked with tox and not setup.py test.
1952 * #249 and #450 via #764: Avoid scanning the whole tree
1953 when building the manifest. Also fixes a long-standing bug
1954 where patterns in ``MANIFEST.in`` had implicit wildcard
1955 matching. This caused ``global-exclude .foo`` to exclude
1956 all ``*.foo`` files, but also ``global-exclude bar.py`` to
1957 exclude ``foo_bar.py``.
1962 * #732: Now extras with a hyphen are honored per PEP 426.
1963 * #811: Update to pyparsing 2.1.10.
1964 * Updated ``setuptools.command.sdist`` to re-use most of
1965 the functionality directly from ``distutils.command.sdist``
1966 for the ``add_defaults`` method with strategic overrides.
1967 See #750 for rationale.
1968 * #760 via #762: Look for certificate bundle where SUSE
1969 Linux typically presents it. Use ``certifi.where()`` to locate
1975 * #809: In ``find_packages()``, restore support for excluding
1976 a parent package without excluding a child package.
1978 * #805: Disable ``-nspkg.pth`` behavior on Python 3.3+ where
1979 PEP-420 functionality is adequate. Fixes pip #1924.
1984 * #803: Bump certifi to 2016.9.26.
1989 * #733: Do not search excluded directories for packages.
1990 This introduced a backwards incompatible change in ``find_packages()``
1991 so that ``find_packages(exclude=['foo']) == []``, excluding subpackages of ``foo``.
1992 Previously, ``find_packages(exclude=['foo']) == ['foo.bar']``,
1993 even though the parent ``foo`` package was excluded.
1995 * #795: Bump certifi.
1997 * #719: Suppress decoding errors and instead log a warning
1998 when metadata cannot be decoded.
2003 * #790: In MSVC monkeypatching, explicitly patch each
2004 function by name in the target module instead of inferring
2005 the module from the function's ``__module__``. Improves
2006 compatibility with other packages that might have previously
2007 patched distutils functions (i.e. NumPy).
2012 * #794: In test command, add installed eggs to PYTHONPATH
2013 when invoking tests so that subprocesses will also have the
2014 dependencies available. Fixes `tox 330
2015 <https://github.com/tox-dev/tox/issues/330>`_.
2017 * #795: Update vendored pyparsing 2.1.9.
2022 * #520 and #513: Suppress ValueErrors in fixup_namespace_packages
2025 * Nicer, more consistent interfaces for msvc monkeypatching.
2030 * #779 via #781: Fix circular import.
2035 * #778: Fix MSVC monkeypatching.
2040 * Introduce the (private) ``monkey`` module to encapsulate
2041 the distutils monkeypatching behavior.
2046 * Now use Warehouse by default for
2047 ``upload``, patching ``distutils.config.PyPIRCCommand`` to
2048 affect default behavior.
2050 Any config in .pypirc should be updated to replace
2052 https://pypi.python.org/pypi/
2056 https://upload.pypi.org/legacy/
2058 Similarly, any passwords stored in the keyring should be
2059 updated to use this new value for "system".
2061 The ``upload_docs`` command will continue to use the python.org
2062 site, but the command is now deprecated. Users are urged to use
2063 Read The Docs instead.
2065 * #776: Use EXT_SUFFIX for py_limited_api renaming.
2067 * #774 and #775: Use LegacyVersion from packaging when
2068 detecting numpy versions.
2073 * Re-release of 26.1.0 with pytest pinned to allow for automated
2074 deployment and thus proper packaging environment variables,
2075 fixing issues with missing executable launchers.
2080 * #763: ``pkg_resources.get_default_cache`` now defers to the
2081 `appdirs project <https://pypi.org/project/appdirs>`_ to
2082 resolve the cache directory. Adds a vendored dependency on
2083 appdirs to pkg_resources.
2088 * #748: By default, sdists are now produced in gzipped tarfile
2089 format by default on all platforms, adding forward compatibility
2090 for the same behavior in Python 3.6 (See Python #27819).
2092 * #459 via #736: On Windows with script launchers,
2093 sys.argv[0] now reflects
2094 the name of the entry point, consistent with the behavior in
2095 distlib and pip wrappers.
2097 * #752 via #753: When indicating ``py_limited_api`` to Extension,
2098 it must be passed as a keyword argument.
2103 * Add Extension(py_limited_api=True). When set to a truthy value,
2104 that extension gets a filename appropriate for code using Py_LIMITED_API.
2105 When used correctly this allows a single compiled extension to work on
2106 all future versions of CPython 3.
2107 The py_limited_api argument only controls the filename. To be
2108 compatible with multiple versions of Python 3, the C extension
2109 will also need to set -DPy_LIMITED_API=... and be modified to use
2110 only the functions in the limited API.
2115 * #739 Fix unquoted libpaths by fixing compatibility between ``numpy.distutils`` and ``distutils._msvccompiler`` for numpy < 1.11.2 (Fix issue #728, error also fixed in Numpy).
2117 * #731: Bump certifi.
2119 * Style updates. See #740, #741, #743, #744, #742, #747.
2121 * #735: include license file.
2126 * #612 via #730: Add a LICENSE file which needs to be provided by the terms of
2132 * #725: revert ``library_dir_option`` patch (Error is related to ``numpy.distutils`` and make errors on non Numpy users).
2138 * #723: Improve patch for ``library_dir_option``.
2145 * #707: Fix Python 2 compatibility for MSVC by catching errors properly.
2146 * #715: Fix unquoted libpaths by patching ``library_dir_option``.
2151 * #714 and #704: Revert fix as it breaks other components
2152 downstream that can't handle unicode. See #709, #710,
2158 * #704: Fix errors when installing a zip sdist that contained
2159 files named with non-ascii characters on Windows would
2160 crash the install when it attempted to clean up the build.
2161 * #646: MSVC compatibility - catch errors properly in
2162 RegistryInfo.lookup.
2163 * #702: Prevent UnboundLocalError when initial working_set
2169 * #686: Fix issue in sys.path ordering by pkg_resources when
2170 rewrite technique is "raw".
2171 * #699: Fix typo in msvc support.
2176 * #609: Setuptools will now try to download a distribution from
2177 the next possible download location if the first download fails.
2178 This means you can now specify multiple links as ``dependency_links``
2179 and all links will be tried until a working download link is encountered.
2184 * #688: Fix AttributeError in setup.py when invoked not from
2185 the current directory.
2190 * Cleanup of setup.py script.
2192 * Fixed documentation builders by allowing setup.py
2193 to be imported without having bootstrapped the
2196 * More style cleanup. See #677, #678, #679, #681, #685.
2201 * #674: Default ``sys.path`` manipulation by easy-install.pth
2202 is now "raw", meaning that when writing easy-install.pth
2203 during any install operation, the ``sys.path`` will not be
2204 rewritten and will no longer give preference to easy_installed
2207 To retain the old behavior when using any easy_install
2208 operation (including ``setup.py install`` when setuptools is
2209 present), set the environment variable:
2211 SETUPTOOLS_SYS_PATH_TECHNIQUE=rewrite
2213 This project hopes that that few if any environments find it
2214 necessary to retain the old behavior, and intends to drop
2215 support for it altogether in a future release. Please report
2216 any relevant concerns in the ticket for this change.
2221 * #398: Fix shebang handling on Windows in script
2222 headers where spaces in ``sys.executable`` would
2223 produce an improperly-formatted shebang header,
2224 introduced in 12.0 with the fix for #188.
2226 * #663, #670: More style updates.
2231 * #516: Disable ``os.link`` to avoid hard linking
2232 in ``sdist.make_distribution``, avoiding errors on
2233 systems that support hard links but not on the
2234 file system in which the build is occurring.
2239 * #667: Update Metadata-Version to 1.2 when
2240 ``python_requires`` is supplied.
2245 * #631: Add support for ``python_requires`` keyword.
2250 * More style updates. See #660, #661, #641.
2255 * #659: ``setup.py`` now will fail fast and with a helpful
2256 error message when the necessary metadata is missing.
2257 * More style updates. See #656, #635, #640,
2258 #644, #650, #652, and #655.
2263 * Updated style in much of the codebase to match
2264 community expectations. See #632, #633, #634,
2265 #637, #639, #638, #642, #648.
2270 * If MSVC++14 is needed ``setuptools.msvc`` now redirect
2271 user to Visual C++ Build Tools web page.
2276 * #625 and #626: Fixes on ``setuptools.msvc`` mainly
2277 for Python 2 and Linux.
2282 * Pull Request #174: Add more aggressive support for
2283 standalone Microsoft Visual C++ compilers in
2284 msvc9compiler patch.
2285 Particularly : Windows SDK 6.1 and 7.0
2286 (MSVC++ 9.0), Windows SDK 7.1 (MSVC++ 10.0),
2287 Visual C++ Build Tools 2015 (MSVC++14)
2288 * Renamed ``setuptools.msvc9_support`` to
2289 ``setuptools.msvc``.
2294 Re-release of v23.2.0, which was missing the intended
2297 * #623: Remove used of deprecated 'U' flag when reading
2303 * #619: Deprecated ``tag_svn_revision`` distribution
2309 * #611: Removed ARM executables for CLI and GUI script
2310 launchers on Windows. If this was a feature you cared
2311 about, please comment in the ticket.
2312 * #604: Removed docs building support. The project
2313 now relies on documentation hosted at
2314 https://setuptools.readthedocs.io/.
2319 * #604: Restore repository for upload_docs command
2320 to restore publishing of docs during release.
2325 * #589: Upload releases to pypi.io using the upload
2326 hostname and legacy path.
2331 * #589: Releases are now uploaded to pypi.io (Warehouse)
2332 even when releases are made on Twine via Travis.
2337 * #589: Releases are now uploaded to pypi.io (Warehouse).
2342 * #190: On Python 2, if unicode is passed for packages to
2343 ``build_py`` command, it will be handled just as with
2349 Intended to be v21.3.0, but jaraco accidentally released as
2352 * #598: Setuptools now lists itself first in the User-Agent
2353 for web requests, better following the guidelines in
2355 <https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7231#section-5.5.3>`_.
2360 * Minor fixes to changelog and docs.
2365 * #261: Exclude directories when resolving globs in
2371 * #539: In the easy_install get_site_dirs, honor all
2372 paths found in ``site.getsitepackages``.
2377 * #572: In build_ext, now always import ``_CONFIG_VARS``
2378 from ``distutils`` rather than from ``sysconfig``
2379 to allow ``distutils.sysconfig.customize_compiler``
2380 configure the OS X compiler for ``-dynamiclib``.
2385 * Removed ez_setup.py from Setuptools sdist. The
2386 bootstrap script will be maintained in its own
2387 branch and should be generally be retrieved from
2388 its canonical location at
2389 https://bootstrap.pypa.io/ez_setup.py.
2394 * #553: egg_info section is now generated in a
2395 deterministic order, matching the order generated
2396 by earlier versions of Python. Except on Python 2.6,
2397 order is preserved when existing settings are present.
2398 * #556: Update to Packaging 16.7, restoring support
2399 for deprecated ``python_implmentation`` marker.
2400 * #555: Upload command now prompts for a password
2401 when uploading to PyPI (or other repository) if no
2402 password is present in .pypirc or in the keyring.
2407 * #548: Update certify version to 2016.2.28
2408 * #545: Safely handle deletion of non-zip eggs in rotate
2414 * Issue #544: Fix issue with extra environment marker
2415 processing in WorkingSet due to refactor in v20.7.0.
2420 * Issue #543: Re-release so that latest release doesn't
2421 cause déjà vu with distribute and setuptools 0.7 in
2427 * Refactored extra environment marker processing
2429 * Issue #533: Fixed intermittent test failures.
2430 * Issue #536: In msvc9_support, trap additional exceptions
2431 that might occur when importing
2432 ``distutils.msvc9compiler`` in mingw environments.
2433 * Issue #537: Provide better context when package
2434 metadata fails to decode in UTF-8.
2439 * Issue #523: Restored support for environment markers,
2440 now honoring 'extra' environment markers.
2445 * Issue #523: Disabled support for environment markers
2446 introduced in v20.5.
2451 * Issue #503: Restore support for PEP 345 environment
2452 markers by updating to Packaging 16.6.
2457 * New release process that relies on
2458 `bumpversion <https://github.com/peritus/bumpversion>`_
2459 and Travis CI for continuous deployment.
2460 * Project versioning semantics now follow
2461 `semver <https://semver.org>`_ precisely.
2462 The 'v' prefix on version numbers now also allows
2463 version numbers to be referenced in the changelog,
2464 e.g. http://setuptools.readthedocs.io/en/latest/history.html#v20-6-0.
2469 * BB Pull Request #185, #470: Add support for environment markers
2470 in requirements in install_requires, setup_requires,
2471 tests_require as well as adding a test for the existing
2472 extra_requires machinery.
2477 * Issue #422: Moved hosting to
2478 `Github <https://github.com/pypa/setuptools>`_
2479 from `Bitbucket <https://bitbucket.org/pypa/setuptools>`_.
2480 Issues have been migrated, though all issues and comments
2481 are attributed to bb-migration. So if you have a particular
2482 issue or issues to which you've been subscribed, you will
2483 want to "watch" the equivalent issue in Github.
2484 The Bitbucket project will be retained for the indefinite
2485 future, but Github now hosts the canonical project repository.
2490 * Issue #519: Remove import hook when reloading the
2491 ``pkg_resources`` module.
2492 * BB Pull Request #184: Update documentation in ``pkg_resources``
2493 around new ``Requirement`` implementation.
2498 * BB Pull Request #179: ``pkg_resources.Requirement`` objects are
2499 now a subclass of ``packaging.requirements.Requirement``,
2500 allowing any environment markers and url (if any) to be
2501 affiliated with the requirement
2502 * BB Pull Request #179: Restore use of RequirementParseError
2503 exception unintentionally dropped in 20.2.
2508 * Issue #502: Correct regression in parsing of multiple
2509 version specifiers separated by commas and spaces.
2514 * Issue #499: Restore compatibility for legacy versions
2515 by bumping to packaging 16.4.
2520 * Changelog now includes release dates and links to PEPs.
2521 * BB Pull Request #173: Replace dual PEP 345 _markerlib implementation
2522 and PEP 426 implementation of environment marker support from
2523 packaging 16.1 and PEP 508. Fixes Issue #122.
2524 See also BB Pull Request #175, BB Pull Request #168, and
2525 BB Pull Request #164. Additionally:
2527 - ``Requirement.parse`` no longer retains the order of extras.
2528 - ``parse_requirements`` now requires that all versions be
2529 PEP-440 compliant, as revealed in #499. Packages released
2530 with invalid local versions should be re-released using
2531 the proper local version syntax, e.g. ``mypkg-1.0+myorg.1``.
2536 * Update ``upload_docs`` command to also honor keyring
2537 for password resolution.
2542 * Added support for using passwords from keyring in the upload
2543 command. See `the upload docs
2544 <https://setuptools.readthedocs.io/en/latest/setuptools.html#upload-upload-source-and-or-egg-distributions-to-pypi>`_
2550 * Issue #118: Once again omit the package metadata (egg-info)
2551 from the list of outputs in ``--record``. This version of setuptools
2552 can no longer be used to upgrade pip earlier than 6.0.
2557 * Off-project PR: `0dcee79 <https://github.com/pypa/setuptools/commit/0dcee791dfdcfacddaaec79b29f30a347a147413>`_ and `f9bd9b9 <https://github.com/pypa/setuptools/commit/f9bd9b9f5df54ef5a0bf8d16c3a889ab8c640580>`_
2558 For FreeBSD, also `honor root certificates from ca_root_nss <https://github.com/pypa/setuptools/commit/3ae46c30225eb46e1f5aada1a19e88b79f04dc72>`_.
2563 * Issue #491: Correct regression incurred in 19.4 where
2564 a double-namespace package installed using pip would
2570 * Restore compatibility for PyPy 3 compatibility lost in
2571 19.4.1 addressing Issue #487.
2572 * ``setuptools.launch`` shim now loads scripts in a new
2573 namespace, avoiding getting relative imports from
2574 the setuptools package on Python 2.
2579 * Added a new entry script ``setuptools.launch``,
2580 implementing the shim found in
2581 ``pip.util.setuptools_build``. Use this command to launch
2582 distutils-only packages under setuptools in the same way that
2583 pip does, causing the setuptools monkeypatching of distutils
2584 to be invoked prior to invoking a script. Useful for debugging
2585 or otherwise installing a distutils-only package under
2586 setuptools when pip isn't available or otherwise does not
2587 expose the desired functionality. For example::
2589 $ python -m setuptools.launch setup.py develop
2591 * Issue #488: Fix dual manifestation of Extension class in
2592 extension packages installed as dependencies when Cython
2598 * Issue #486: Correct TypeError when getfilesystemencoding
2600 * Issue #139: Clarified the license as MIT.
2601 * BB Pull Request #169: Removed special handling of command
2602 spec in scripts for Jython.
2607 * Issue #487: Use direct invocation of ``importlib.machinery``
2608 in ``pkg_resources`` to avoid missing detection on relevant
2614 * Issue #341: Correct error in path handling of package data
2615 files in ``build_py`` command when package is empty.
2616 * Distribute #323, Issue #141, Issue #207, and
2617 BB Pull Request #167: Another implementation of
2618 ``pkg_resources.WorkingSet`` and ``pkg_resources.Distribution``
2619 that supports replacing an extant package with a new one,
2620 allowing for setup_requires dependencies to supersede installed
2621 packages for the session.
2626 * Issue #229: Implement new technique for readily incorporating
2627 dependencies conditionally from vendored copies or primary
2628 locations. Adds a new dependency on six.
2633 * BB Pull Request #163: Add get_command_list method to Distribution.
2634 * BB Pull Request #162: Add missing whitespace to multiline string
2640 * Issue #476: Cast version to string (using default encoding)
2641 to avoid creating Unicode types on Python 2 clients.
2642 * Issue #477: In Powershell downloader, use explicit rendering
2643 of strings, rather than rely on ``repr``, which can be
2644 incorrect (especially on Python 2).
2649 * Issue #215: The bootstrap script ``ez_setup.py`` now
2650 automatically detects
2651 the latest version of setuptools (using PyPI JSON API) rather
2652 than hard-coding a particular value.
2653 * Issue #475: Fix incorrect usage in _translate_metadata2.
2658 * Issue #442: Use RawConfigParser for parsing .pypirc file.
2659 Interpolated values are no longer honored in .pypirc files.
2664 * Issue #440: Prevent infinite recursion when a SandboxViolation
2665 or other UnpickleableException occurs in a sandbox context
2666 with setuptools hidden. Fixes regression introduced in Setuptools
2672 * Deprecated ``egg_info.get_pkg_info_revision``.
2673 * Issue #471: Don't rely on repr for an HTML attribute value in
2675 * Issue #419: Avoid errors in FileMetadata when the metadata directory
2677 * Issue #472: Remove deprecated use of 'U' in mode parameter
2683 * Issue #469: Refactored logic for Issue #419 fix to re-use metadata
2684 loading from Provider.
2689 * Update dependency on certify.
2690 * BB Pull Request #160: Improve detection of gui script in
2691 ``easy_install._adjust_header``.
2692 * Made ``test.test_args`` a non-data property; alternate fix
2693 for the issue reported in BB Pull Request #155.
2694 * Issue #453: In ``ez_setup`` bootstrap module, unload all
2695 ``pkg_resources`` modules following download.
2696 * BB Pull Request #158: Honor PEP-488 when excluding
2697 files for namespace packages.
2698 * Issue #419 and BB Pull Request #144: Add experimental support for
2699 reading the version info from distutils-installed metadata rather
2700 than using the version in the filename.
2705 * Issue #464: Correct regression in invocation of superclass on old-style
2711 * Issue #439: When installing entry_point scripts under development,
2712 omit the version number of the package, allowing any version of the
2718 * In preparation for dropping support for Python 3.2, a warning is
2719 now logged when pkg_resources is imported on Python 3.2 or earlier
2721 * `Add support for python_platform_implementation environment marker
2722 <https://github.com/pypa/setuptools/commit/94416707fd59a65f4a8f7f70541d6b3fc018b626>`_.
2723 * `Fix dictionary mutation during iteration
2724 <https://github.com/pypa/setuptools/commit/57ebfa41e0f96b97e599ecd931b7ae8a143e096e>`_.
2729 * Issue #446: Test command now always invokes unittest, even
2730 if no test suite is supplied.
2735 * Correct another regression in setuptools.findall
2736 where the fix for Python #12885 was lost.
2741 * Issue #425: Correct regression in setuptools.findall.
2746 * BB Pull Request #135: Setuptools now allows disabling of
2747 the manipulation of the sys.path
2748 during the processing of the easy-install.pth file. To do so, set
2749 the environment variable ``SETUPTOOLS_SYS_PATH_TECHNIQUE`` to
2750 anything but "rewrite" (consider "raw"). During any install operation
2751 with manipulation disabled, setuptools packages will be appended to
2754 Future versions may change the default behavior to disable
2755 manipulation. If so, the default behavior can be retained by setting
2756 the variable to "rewrite".
2758 * Issue #257: ``easy_install --version`` now shows more detail
2759 about the installation location and Python version.
2761 * Refactor setuptools.findall in preparation for re-submission
2767 * Issue #412: More efficient directory search in ``find_packages``.
2772 * Upgrade to vendored packaging 15.3.
2777 * Issue #401: Fix failure in test suite.
2782 * Dropped support for builds with Pyrex. Only Cython is supported.
2783 * Issue #288: Detect Cython later in the build process, after
2784 ``setup_requires`` dependencies are resolved.
2785 Projects backed by Cython can now be readily built
2786 with a ``setup_requires`` dependency. For example::
2788 ext = setuptools.Extension('mylib', ['src/CythonStuff.pyx', 'src/CStuff.c'])
2792 setup_requires=['cython'],
2795 For compatibility with older versions of setuptools, packagers should
2796 still include ``src/CythonMod.c`` in the source distributions or
2797 require that Cython be present before building source distributions.
2798 However, for systems with this build of setuptools, Cython will be
2799 downloaded on demand.
2800 * Issue #396: Fixed test failure on OS X.
2801 * BB Pull Request #136: Remove excessive quoting from shebang headers
2807 * Backed out unintended changes to pkg_resources, restoring removal of
2808 deprecated imp module (`ref
2809 <https://bitbucket.org/pypa/setuptools/commits/f572ec9563d647fa8d4ffc534f2af8070ea07a8b#comment-1881283>`_).
2814 * Issue #380: Add support for range operators on environment
2820 * Issue #378: Do not use internal importlib._bootstrap module.
2821 * Issue #390: Disallow console scripts with path separators in
2822 the name. Removes unintended functionality and brings behavior
2823 into parity with pip.
2828 * BB Pull Request #130: Better error messages for errors in
2829 parsed requirements.
2830 * BB Pull Request #133: Removed ``setuptools.tests`` from the
2832 * BB Pull Request #129: Address deprecation warning due to usage
2838 * Issue #373: Provisionally expose
2839 ``pkg_resources._initialize_master_working_set``, allowing for
2840 imperative re-initialization of the master working set.
2845 * Updated to Packaging 15.1 to address Packaging #28.
2846 * Fix ``setuptools.sandbox._execfile()`` with Python 3.1.
2851 * BB Pull Request #126: DistributionNotFound message now lists the package or
2852 packages that required it. E.g.::
2854 pkg_resources.DistributionNotFound: The 'colorama>=0.3.1' distribution was not found and is required by smlib.log.
2856 Note that zc.buildout once dependended on the string rendering of this
2857 message to determine the package that was not found. This expectation
2858 has since been changed, but older versions of buildout may experience
2859 problems. See Buildout #242 for details.
2864 * Issue #307: Removed PEP-440 warning during parsing of versions
2865 in ``pkg_resources.Distribution``.
2866 * Issue #364: Replace deprecated usage with recommended usage of
2867 ``EntryPoint.load``.
2872 * Issue #254: When creating temporary egg cache on Unix, use mode 755
2873 for creating the directory to avoid the subsequent warning if
2874 the directory is group writable.
2879 * Issue #137: Update ``Distribution.hashcmp`` so that Distributions with
2880 None for pyversion or platform can be compared against Distributions
2881 defining those attributes.
2886 * Issue #360: Removed undesirable behavior from test runs, preventing
2887 write tests and installation to system site packages.
2892 * BB Pull Request #125: Add ``__ne__`` to Requirement class.
2893 * Various refactoring of easy_install.
2898 * Bootstrap script now accepts ``--to-dir`` to customize save directory or
2899 allow for re-use of existing repository of setuptools versions. See
2900 BB Pull Request #112 for background.
2901 * Issue #285: ``easy_install`` no longer will default to installing
2902 packages to the "user site packages" directory if it is itself installed
2903 there. Instead, the user must pass ``--user`` in all cases to install
2904 packages to the user site packages.
2905 This behavior now matches that of "pip install". To configure
2906 an environment to always install to the user site packages, consider
2907 using the "install-dir" and "scripts-dir" parameters to easy_install
2908 through an appropriate distutils config file.
2913 * Issue #359: Include pytest.ini in the sdist so invocation of py.test on the
2914 sdist honors the pytest configuration.
2919 Re-release of 13.0. Intermittent connectivity issues caused the release
2920 process to fail and PyPI uploads no longer accept files for 13.0.
2925 * Issue #356: Back out BB Pull Request #119 as it requires Setuptools 10 or later
2926 as the source during an upgrade.
2927 * Removed build_py class from setup.py. According to 892f439d216e, this
2928 functionality was added to support upgrades from old Distribute versions,
2934 * BB Pull Request #119: Restore writing of ``setup_requires`` to metadata
2935 (previously added in 8.4 and removed in 9.0).
2940 * Documentation is now linked using the rst.linker package.
2941 * Fix ``setuptools.command.easy_install.extract_wininst_cfg()``
2942 with Python 2.6 and 2.7.
2943 * Issue #354. Added documentation on building setuptools
2949 * Issue #345: Unload all modules under pkg_resources during
2950 ``ez_setup.use_setuptools()``.
2951 * Issue #336: Removed deprecation from ``ez_setup.use_setuptools``,
2952 as it is clearly still used by buildout's bootstrap. ``ez_setup``
2953 remains deprecated for use by individual packages.
2954 * Simplified implementation of ``ez_setup.use_setuptools``.
2959 * BB Pull Request #118: Soften warning for non-normalized versions in
2965 * Issue #339: Correct Attribute reference in ``cant_write_to_target``.
2966 * Issue #336: Deprecated ``ez_setup.use_setuptools``.
2971 * Issue #335: Fix script header generation on Windows.
2976 * Fixed incorrect class attribute in ``install_scripts``. Tests would be nice.
2981 * Issue #331: Fixed ``install_scripts`` command on Windows systems corrupting
2987 * Restore ``setuptools.command.easy_install.sys_executable`` for pbr
2988 compatibility. For the future, tools should construct a CommandSpec
2994 * Issue #188: Setuptools now support multiple entities in the value for
2995 ``build.executable``, such that an executable of "/usr/bin/env my-python" may
2996 be specified. This means that systems with a specified executable whose name
2997 has spaces in the path must be updated to escape or quote that value.
2998 * Deprecated ``easy_install.ScriptWriter.get_writer``, replaced by ``.best()``
2999 with slightly different semantics (no force_windows flag).
3004 * Issue #327: Formalize and restore support for any printable character in an
3010 * Expose ``EntryPoint.resolve`` in place of EntryPoint._load, implementing the
3011 simple, non-requiring load. Deprecated all uses of ``EntryPoint._load``
3012 except for calling with no parameters, which is just a shortcut for
3013 ``ep.require(); ep.resolve();``.
3015 Apps currently invoking ``ep.load(require=False)`` should instead do the
3016 following if wanting to avoid the deprecating warning::
3018 getattr(ep, "resolve", lambda: ep.load(require=False))()
3023 * Pip #2326: Report deprecation warning at stacklevel 2 for easier diagnosis.
3028 * Issue #281: Since Setuptools 6.1 (Issue #268), a ValueError would be raised
3029 in certain cases where VersionConflict was raised with two arguments, which
3030 occurred in ``pkg_resources.WorkingSet.find``. This release adds support
3031 for indicating the dependent packages while maintaining support for
3032 a VersionConflict when no dependent package context is known. New unit tests
3033 now capture the expected interface.
3038 * Interop #3: Upgrade to Packaging 15.0; updates to PEP 440 so that >1.7 does
3039 not exclude 1.7.1 but does exclude 1.7.0 and 1.7.0.post1.
3044 * Issue #323: Fix regression in entry point name parsing.
3049 * Deprecated use of EntryPoint.load(require=False). Passing a boolean to a
3050 function to select behavior is an anti-pattern. Instead use
3051 ``Entrypoint._load()``.
3052 * Substantial refactoring of all unit tests. Tests are now much leaner and
3053 re-use a lot of fixtures and contexts for better clarity of purpose.
3058 * Issue #320: Added a compatibility implementation of
3059 ``sdist._default_revctrl``
3060 so that systems relying on that interface do not fail (namely, Ubuntu 12.04
3061 and similar Debian releases).
3066 * Issue #319: Fixed issue installing pure distutils packages.
3071 * Issue #313: Removed built-in support for subversion. Projects wishing to
3072 retain support for subversion will need to use a third party library. The
3073 extant implementation is being ported to `setuptools_svn
3074 <https://pypi.org/project/setuptools_svn/>`_.
3075 * Issue #315: Updated setuptools to hide its own loaded modules during
3076 installation of another package. This change will enable setuptools to
3077 upgrade (or downgrade) itself even when its own metadata and implementation
3083 * Prefer vendored packaging library `as recommended
3084 <https://github.com/pypa/setuptools/commit/170657b68f4b92e7e1bf82f5e19a831f5744af67>`_.
3089 * Issue #312: Restored presence of pkg_resources API tests (doctest) to sdist.
3094 * Issue #314: Disabled support for ``setup_requires`` metadata to avoid issue
3095 where Setuptools was unable to upgrade over earlier versions.
3100 * BB Pull Request #106: Now write ``setup_requires`` metadata.
3105 * Issue #311: Decoupled pkg_resources from setuptools once again.
3106 ``pkg_resources`` is now a package instead of a module.
3111 * Issue #306: Suppress warnings about Version format except in select scenarios
3112 (such as installation).
3117 * BB Pull Request #85: Search egg-base when adding egg-info to manifest.
3122 * Upgrade ``packaging`` to 14.5, giving preference to "rc" as designator for
3123 release candidates over "c".
3124 * PEP-440 warnings are now raised as their own class,
3125 ``pkg_resources.PEP440Warning``, instead of RuntimeWarning.
3126 * Disabled warnings on empty versions.
3131 * Upgrade ``packaging`` to 14.4, fixing an error where there is a
3132 different result for if 2.0.5 is contained within >2.0dev and >2.0.dev even
3133 though normalization rules should have made them equal.
3134 * Issue #296: Add warning when a version is parsed as legacy. This warning will
3135 make it easier for developers to recognize deprecated version numbers.
3140 * Issue #296: Restored support for ``__hash__`` on parse_version results.
3145 * Issue #296: Restored support for ``__getitem__`` and sort operations on
3146 parse_version result.
3151 * Issue #296: Restore support for iteration over parse_version result, but
3152 deprecated that usage with a warning. Fixes failure with buildout.
3157 * Implement PEP 440 within
3158 pkg_resources and setuptools. This change
3159 deprecates some version numbers such that they will no longer be installable
3160 without using the ``===`` escape hatch. See `the changes to test_resources
3161 <https://bitbucket.org/pypa/setuptools/commits/dcd552da643c4448056de84c73d56da6d70769d5#chg-setuptools/tests/test_resources.py>`_
3162 for specific examples of version numbers and specifiers that are no longer
3163 supported. Setuptools now "vendors" the `packaging
3164 <https://github.com/pypa/packaging>`_ library.
3169 * Issue #80, Issue #209: Eggs that are downloaded for ``setup_requires``,
3170 ``test_requires``, etc. are now placed in a ``./.eggs`` directory instead of
3171 directly in the current directory. This choice of location means the files
3172 can be readily managed (removed, ignored). Additionally,
3173 later phases or invocations of setuptools will not detect the package as
3174 already installed and ignore it for permanent install (See #209).
3176 This change is indicated as backward-incompatible as installations that
3177 depend on the installation in the current directory will need to account for
3178 the new location. Systems that ignore ``*.egg`` will probably need to be
3179 adapted to ignore ``.eggs``. The files will need to be manually moved or
3180 will be retrieved again. Most use cases will require no attention.
3185 * Issue #268: When resolving package versions, a VersionConflict now reports
3186 which package previously required the conflicting version.
3191 * Issue #262: Fixed regression in pip install due to egg-info directories
3192 being omitted. Re-opens Issue #118.
3197 * Issue #259: Fixed regression with namespace package handling on ``single
3198 version, externally managed`` installs.
3203 * Issue #100: When building a distribution, Setuptools will no longer match
3204 default files using platform-dependent case sensitivity, but rather will
3205 only match the files if their case matches exactly. As a result, on Windows
3206 and other case-insensitive file systems, files with names such as
3207 'readme.txt' or 'README.TXT' will be omitted from the distribution and a
3208 warning will be issued indicating that 'README.txt' was not found. Other
3209 filenames affected are:
3214 - setup.py (or the script name)
3217 Any users producing distributions with filenames that match those above
3218 case-insensitively, but not case-sensitively, should rename those files in
3219 their repository for better portability.
3220 * BB Pull Request #72: When using ``single_version_externally_managed``, the
3221 exclusion list now includes Python 3.2 ``__pycache__`` entries.
3222 * BB Pull Request #76 and BB Pull Request #78: lines in top_level.txt are now
3223 ordered deterministically.
3224 * Issue #118: The egg-info directory is now no longer included in the list
3226 * Issue #258: Setuptools now patches distutils msvc9compiler to
3227 recognize the specially-packaged compiler package for easy extension module
3228 support on Python 2.6, 2.7, and 3.2.
3233 * Issue #237: ``pkg_resources`` now uses explicit detection of Python 2 vs.
3234 Python 3, supporting environments where builtins have been patched to make
3235 Python 3 look more like Python 2.
3240 * Issue #240: Based on real-world performance measures against 5.4, zip
3241 manifests are now cached in all circumstances. The
3242 ``PKG_RESOURCES_CACHE_ZIP_MANIFESTS`` environment variable is no longer
3243 relevant. The observed "memory increase" referenced in the 5.4 release
3244 notes and detailed in Issue #154 was likely not an increase over the status
3245 quo, but rather only an increase over not storing the zip info at all.
3250 * Issue #242: Use absolute imports in svn_utils to avoid issues if the
3251 installing package adds an xml module to the path.
3256 * Issue #239: Fix typo in 5.5 such that fix did not take.
3261 * Issue #239: Setuptools now includes the setup_requires directive on
3262 Distribution objects and validates the syntax just like install_requires
3263 and tests_require directives.
3268 * Issue #236: Corrected regression in execfile implementation for Python 2.6.
3273 * Python #7776: (ssl_support) Correct usage of host for validation when
3274 tunneling for HTTPS.
3279 * Issue #154: ``pkg_resources`` will now cache the zip manifests rather than
3280 re-processing the same file from disk multiple times, but only if the
3281 environment variable ``PKG_RESOURCES_CACHE_ZIP_MANIFESTS`` is set. Clients
3282 that package many modules in the same zip file will see some improvement
3283 in startup time by enabling this feature. This feature is not enabled by
3284 default because it causes a substantial increase in memory usage.
3289 * Issue #185: Make svn tagging work on the new style SVN metadata.
3291 * Prune revision control directories (e.g .svn) from base path
3292 as well as sub-directories.
3297 * Added a `Developer Guide
3298 <https://setuptools.readthedocs.io/en/latest/developer-guide.html>`_ to the official
3300 * Some code refactoring and cleanup was done with no intended behavioral
3302 * During install_egg_info, the generated lines for namespace package .pth
3303 files are now processed even during a dry run.
3308 * Issue #202: Implemented more robust cache invalidation for the ZipImporter,
3309 building on the work in Issue #168. Special thanks to Jurko Gospodnetic and
3315 * Issue #220: Restored script templates.
3320 * Renamed script templates to end with .tmpl now that they no longer need
3321 to be processed by 2to3. Fixes spurious syntax errors during build/install.
3326 * Issue #218: Re-release of 3.8.1 to signal that it supersedes 4.x.
3327 * Incidentally, script templates were updated not to include the triple-quote
3330 3.7.1 and 3.8.1 and 4.0.1
3331 -------------------------
3333 * Issue #213: Use legacy StringIO behavior for compatibility under pbr.
3334 * Issue #218: Setuptools 3.8.1 superseded 4.0.1, and 4.x was removed
3335 from the available versions to install.
3340 * Issue #210: ``setup.py develop`` now copies scripts in binary mode rather
3341 than text mode, matching the behavior of the ``install`` command.
3346 * Extend Issue #197 workaround to include all Python 3 versions prior to
3352 * Issue #193: Improved handling of Unicode filenames when building manifests.
3357 * Issue #203: Honor proxy settings for Powershell downloader in the bootstrap
3363 * Issue #168: More robust handling of replaced zip files and stale caches.
3364 Fixes ZipImportError complaining about a 'bad local header'.
3369 * Issue #199: Restored ``install._install`` for compatibility with earlier
3375 * Issue #195: Follow symbolic links in find_packages (restoring behavior
3377 * Issue #197: On Python 3.1, PKG-INFO is now saved in a UTF-8 encoding instead
3378 of ``sys.getpreferredencoding`` to match the behavior on Python 2.6-3.4.
3379 * Issue #192: Preferred bootstrap location is now
3380 https://bootstrap.pypa.io/ez_setup.py (mirrored from former location).
3385 * Issue #184: Correct failure where find_package over-matched packages
3386 when directory traversal isn't short-circuited.
3391 * Issue #183: Really fix test command with Python 3.1.
3396 * Issue #183: Fix additional regression in test command on Python 3.1.
3401 * Issue #180: Fix regression in test command not caught by py.test-run tests.
3406 * Issue #176: Add parameter to the test command to support a custom test
3407 runner: --test-runner or -r.
3408 * Issue #177: Now assume most common invocation to install command on
3409 platforms/environments without stack support (issuing a warning). Setuptools
3410 now installs naturally on IronPython. Behavior on CPython should be
3416 * Add ``include`` parameter to ``setuptools.find_packages()``.
3421 * BB Pull Request #39: Add support for C++ targets from Cython ``.pyx`` files.
3422 * Issue #162: Update dependency on certifi to 1.0.1.
3423 * Issue #164: Update dependency on wincertstore to 0.2.
3428 * Issue #161: Restore Features functionality to allow backward compatibility
3429 (for Features) until the uses of that functionality is sufficiently removed.
3434 * Correct typo in previous bugfix.
3439 * Issue #157: Restore support for Python 2.6 in bootstrap script where
3440 ``zipfile.ZipFile`` does not yet have support for context managers.
3445 * Issue #125: Prevent Subversion support from creating a ~/.subversion
3446 directory just for checking the presence of a Subversion repository.
3447 * Issue #12: Namespace packages are now imported lazily. That is, the mere
3448 declaration of a namespace package in an egg on ``sys.path`` no longer
3449 causes it to be imported when ``pkg_resources`` is imported. Note that this
3450 change means that all of a namespace package's ``__init__.py`` files must
3451 include a ``declare_namespace()`` call in order to ensure that they will be
3452 handled properly at runtime. In 2.x it was possible to get away without
3453 including the declaration, but only at the cost of forcing namespace
3454 packages to be imported early, which 3.0 no longer does.
3455 * Issue #148: When building (bdist_egg), setuptools no longer adds
3456 ``__init__.py`` files to namespace packages. Any packages that rely on this
3457 behavior will need to create ``__init__.py`` files and include the
3458 ``declare_namespace()``.
3459 * Issue #7: Setuptools itself is now distributed as a zip archive in addition to
3460 tar archive. ez_setup.py now uses zip archive. This approach avoids the potential
3461 security vulnerabilities presented by use of tar archives in ez_setup.py.
3462 It also leverages the security features added to ZipFile.extract in Python 2.7.4.
3463 * Issue #65: Removed deprecated Features functionality.
3464 * BB Pull Request #28: Remove backport of ``_bytecode_filenames`` which is
3465 available in Python 2.6 and later, but also has better compatibility with
3466 Python 3 environments.
3467 * Issue #156: Fix spelling of __PYVENV_LAUNCHER__ variable.
3472 * Issue #141: Restored fix for allowing setup_requires dependencies to
3473 override installed dependencies during setup.
3474 * Issue #128: Fixed issue where only the first dependency link was honored
3475 in a distribution where multiple dependency links were supplied.
3480 * Issue #144: Read long_description using codecs module to avoid errors
3481 installing on systems where LANG=C.
3486 * Issue #139: Fix regression in re_finder for CVS repos (and maybe Git repos
3492 * Issue #129: Suppress inspection of ``*.whl`` files when searching for files
3493 in a zip-imported file.
3494 * Issue #131: Fix RuntimeError when constructing an egg fetcher.
3499 * Fix NameError during installation with Python implementations (e.g. Jython)
3500 not containing parser module.
3501 * Fix NameError in ``sdist:re_finder``.
3506 * Issue #124: Fixed error in list detection in upload_docs.
3511 * Issue #121: Exempt lib2to3 pickled grammars from DirectorySandbox.
3512 * Issue #41: Dropped support for Python 2.4 and Python 2.5. Clients requiring
3513 setuptools for those versions of Python should use setuptools 1.x.
3514 * Removed ``setuptools.command.easy_install.HAS_USER_SITE``. Clients
3515 expecting this boolean variable should use ``site.ENABLE_USER_SITE``
3517 * Removed ``pkg_resources.ImpWrapper``. Clients that expected this class
3518 should use ``pkgutil.ImpImporter`` instead.
3523 * Issue #116: Correct TypeError when reading a local package index on Python
3529 * Issue #114: Use ``sys.getfilesystemencoding`` for decoding config in
3530 ``bdist_wininst`` distributions.
3532 * Issue #105 and Issue #113: Establish a more robust technique for
3533 determining the terminal encoding::
3535 1. Try ``getpreferredencoding``
3536 2. If that returns US_ASCII or None, try the encoding from
3537 ``getdefaultlocale``. If that encoding was a "fallback" because Python
3538 could not figure it out from the environment or OS, encoding remains
3540 3. If the encoding is resolved, then make sure Python actually implements
3542 4. On the event of an error or unknown codec, revert to fallbacks
3543 (UTF-8 on Darwin, ASCII on everything else).
3544 5. On the encoding is 'mac-roman' on Darwin, use UTF-8 as 'mac-roman' was
3545 a bug on older Python releases.
3547 On a side note, it would seem that the encoding only matters for when SVN
3548 does not yet support ``--xml`` and when getting repository and svn version
3549 numbers. The ``--xml`` technique should yield UTF-8 according to some
3550 messages on the SVN mailing lists. So if the version numbers are always
3551 7-bit ASCII clean, it may be best to only support the file parsing methods
3552 for legacy SVN releases and support for SVN without the subprocess command
3553 would simple go away as support for the older SVNs does.
3558 * Issue #27: ``easy_install`` will now use credentials from .pypirc if
3559 present for connecting to the package index.
3560 * BB Pull Request #21: Omit unwanted newlines in ``package_index._encode_auth``
3561 when the username/password pair length indicates wrapping.
3566 * Issue #99: Fix filename encoding issues in SVN support.
3571 * Remove exuberant warning in SVN support when SVN is not used.
3576 * Address security vulnerability in SSL match_hostname check as reported in
3578 * Prefer `backports.ssl_match_hostname
3579 <https://pypi.org/project/backports.ssl_match_hostname/>`_ for backport
3580 implementation if present.
3581 * Correct NameError in ``ssl_support`` module (``socket.error``).
3586 * Issue #26: Add support for SVN 1.7. Special thanks to Philip Thiem for the
3588 * Issue #93: Wheels are now distributed with every release. Note that as
3589 reported in Issue #108, as of Pip 1.4, scripts aren't installed properly
3590 from wheels. Therefore, if using Pip to install setuptools from a wheel,
3591 the ``easy_install`` command will not be available.
3592 * Setuptools "natural" launcher support, introduced in 1.0, is now officially
3598 * Fixed behavior of NameError handling in 'script template (dev).py' (script
3599 launcher for 'develop' installs).
3600 * ``ez_setup.py`` now ensures partial downloads are cleaned up following
3602 * Distribute #363 and Issue #55: Skip an sdist test that fails on locales
3608 * Distribute #349: ``sandbox.execfile`` now opens the target file in binary
3609 mode, thus honoring a BOM in the file when compiled.
3614 * Issue #69: Second attempt at fix (logic was reversed).
3619 * Issue #77: Fix error in upload command (Python 2.4).
3624 * Fix NameError in previous patch.
3629 * Issue #69: Correct issue where 404 errors are returned for URLs with
3630 fragments in them (such as #egg=).
3635 * Issue #75: Add ``--insecure`` option to ez_setup.py to accommodate
3636 environments where a trusted SSL connection cannot be validated.
3637 * Issue #76: Fix AttributeError in upload command with Python 2.4.
3642 * Issue #71 (Distribute #333): EasyInstall now puts less emphasis on the
3643 condition when a host is blocked via ``--allow-hosts``.
3644 * Issue #72: Restored Python 2.4 compatibility in ``ez_setup.py``.
3649 * Issue #60: On Windows, Setuptools supports deferring to another launcher,
3650 such as Vinay Sajip's `pylauncher <https://bitbucket.org/pypa/pylauncher>`_
3651 (included with Python 3.3) to launch console and GUI scripts and not install
3652 its own launcher executables. This experimental functionality is currently
3653 only enabled if the ``SETUPTOOLS_LAUNCHER`` environment variable is set to
3654 "natural". In the future, this behavior may become default, but only after
3655 it has matured and seen substantial adoption. The ``SETUPTOOLS_LAUNCHER``
3656 also accepts "executable" to force the default behavior of creating launcher
3658 * Issue #63: Bootstrap script (ez_setup.py) now prefers Powershell, curl, or
3659 wget for retrieving the Setuptools tarball for improved security of the
3660 install. The script will still fall back to a simple ``urlopen`` on
3661 platforms that do not have these tools.
3662 * Issue #65: Deprecated the ``Features`` functionality.
3663 * Issue #52: In ``VerifyingHTTPSConn``, handle a tunnelled (proxied)
3666 Backward-Incompatible Changes
3667 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
3669 This release includes a couple of backward-incompatible changes, but most if
3670 not all users will find 1.0 a drop-in replacement for 0.9.
3672 * Issue #50: Normalized API of environment marker support. Specifically,
3673 removed line number and filename from SyntaxErrors when returned from
3674 ``pkg_resources.invalid_marker``. Any clients depending on the specific
3675 string representation of exceptions returned by that function may need to
3676 be updated to account for this change.
3677 * Issue #50: SyntaxErrors generated by ``pkg_resources.invalid_marker`` are
3678 normalized for cross-implementation consistency.
3679 * Removed ``--ignore-conflicts-at-my-risk`` and ``--delete-conflicting``
3680 options to easy_install. These options have been deprecated since 0.6a11.
3685 * Issue #53: Fix NameErrors in ``_vcs_split_rev_from_url``.
3690 * Issue #49: Correct AttributeError on PyPy where a hashlib.HASH object does
3691 not have a ``.name`` attribute.
3692 * Issue #34: Documentation now refers to bootstrap script in code repository
3693 referenced by bookmark.
3694 * Add underscore-separated keys to environment markers (markerlib).
3699 * Issue #44: Test failure on Python 2.4 when MD5 hash doesn't have a ``.name``
3705 * Python #17980: Fix security vulnerability in SSL certificate validation.
3710 * Issue #43: Fix issue (introduced in 0.9.1) with version resolution when
3711 upgrading over other releases of Setuptools.
3716 * Issue #42: Fix new ``AttributeError`` introduced in last fix.
3721 * Issue #42: Fix regression where blank checksums would trigger an
3727 * Distribute #386: Allow other positional and keyword arguments to os.open.
3728 * Corrected dependency on certifi mis-referenced in 0.9.
3733 * ``package_index`` now validates hashes other than MD5 in download links.
3738 * Code base now runs on Python 2.4 - Python 3.3 without Python 2to3
3744 * Distribute #375: Yet another fix for yet another regression.
3749 * Distribute #375: Repair AttributeError created in last release (redo).
3750 * Issue #30: Added test for get_cache_path.
3755 * Distribute #375: Repair AttributeError created in last release.
3760 * Issue #21: Restore Python 2.4 compatibility in ``test_easy_install``.
3761 * Distribute #375: Merged additional warning from Distribute 0.6.46.
3762 * Now honor the environment variable
3763 ``SETUPTOOLS_DISABLE_VERSIONED_EASY_INSTALL_SCRIPT`` in addition to the now
3764 deprecated ``DISTRIBUTE_DISABLE_VERSIONED_EASY_INSTALL_SCRIPT``.
3769 * Issue #20: Fix comparison of parsed SVN version on Python 3.
3774 * Issue #1: Disable installation of Windows-specific files on non-Windows systems.
3775 * Use new sysconfig module with Python 2.7 or >=3.2.
3780 * Issue #14: Use markerlib when the ``parser`` module is not available.
3781 * Issue #10: ``ez_setup.py`` now uses HTTPS to download setuptools from PyPI.
3786 * Fix NameError (Issue #3) again - broken in bad merge.
3791 * Merged Setuptools and Distribute. See docs/merge.txt for details.
3793 Added several features that were slated for setuptools 0.6c12:
3795 * Index URL now defaults to HTTPS.
3796 * Added experimental environment marker support. Now clients may designate a
3797 PEP-426 environment marker for "extra" dependencies. Setuptools uses this
3798 feature in ``setup.py`` for optional SSL and certificate validation support
3799 on older platforms. Based on Distutils-SIG discussions, the syntax is
3800 somewhat tentative. There should probably be a PEP with a firmer spec before
3801 the feature should be considered suitable for use.
3802 * Added support for SSL certificate validation when installing packages from
3808 * Issue #3: Fixed NameError in SSL support.
3813 * Move warning check in ``get_cache_path`` to follow the directory creation
3814 to avoid errors when the cache path does not yet exist. Fixes the error
3815 reported in Distribute #375.
3820 * Correct AttributeError in ``ResourceManager.get_cache_path`` introduced in
3826 * Correct AttributeError in ``ResourceManager.get_cache_path`` introduced in
3832 * Distribute #375: Issue a warning if the PYTHON_EGG_CACHE or otherwise
3833 customized egg cache location specifies a directory that's group- or
3839 * Distribute #379: ``distribute_setup.py`` now traps VersionConflict as well,
3840 restoring ability to upgrade from an older setuptools version.
3845 * ``distribute_setup.py`` has been updated to allow Setuptools 0.7 to
3846 satisfy use_setuptools.
3851 * Distribute #378: Restore support for Python 2.4 Syntax (regression in 0.6.42).
3856 * External links finder no longer yields duplicate links.
3857 * Distribute #337: Moved site.py to setuptools/site-patch.py (graft of very old
3858 patch from setuptools trunk which inspired PR #31).
3863 * Distribute #27: Use public api for loading resources from zip files rather than
3864 the private method ``_zip_directory_cache``.
3865 * Added a new function ``easy_install.get_win_launcher`` which may be used by
3866 third-party libraries such as buildout to get a suitable script launcher.
3871 * Distribute #376: brought back cli.exe and gui.exe that were deleted in the
3877 * Add support for console launchers on ARM platforms.
3878 * Fix possible issue in GUI launchers where the subsystem was not supplied to
3880 * Launcher build script now refactored for robustness.
3881 * Distribute #375: Resources extracted from a zip egg to the file system now also
3882 check the contents of the file against the zip contents during each
3883 invocation of get_resource_filename.
3888 * Distribute #371: The launcher manifest file is now installed properly.
3893 * Distribute #143: Launcher scripts, including easy_install itself, are now
3894 accompanied by a manifest on 32-bit Windows environments to avoid the
3895 Installer Detection Technology and thus undesirable UAC elevation described
3896 in `this Microsoft article
3897 <http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc709628%28WS.10%29.aspx>`_.
3902 * BB Pull Request #35: In Buildout #64, it was reported that
3903 under Python 3, installation of distutils scripts could attempt to copy
3904 the ``__pycache__`` directory as a file, causing an error, apparently only
3905 under Windows. Easy_install now skips all directories when processing
3912 Note this release is backward-incompatible with distribute 0.6.23-0.6.34 in
3913 how it parses version numbers.
3915 * Distribute #278: Restored compatibility with distribute 0.6.22 and setuptools
3916 0.6. Updated the documentation to match more closely with the version
3917 parsing as intended in setuptools 0.6.
3922 * Distribute #341: 0.6.33 fails to build under Python 2.4.
3927 * Fix 2 errors with Jython 2.5.
3928 * Fix 1 failure with Jython 2.5 and 2.7.
3929 * Disable workaround for Jython scripts on Linux systems.
3930 * Distribute #336: ``setup.py`` no longer masks failure exit code when tests fail.
3931 * Fix issue in pkg_resources where try/except around a platform-dependent
3932 import would trigger hook load failures on Mercurial. See pull request 32
3934 * Distribute #341: Fix a ResourceWarning.
3939 * Fix test suite with Python 2.6.
3940 * Fix some DeprecationWarnings and ResourceWarnings.
3941 * Distribute #335: Backed out ``setup_requires`` superceding installed requirements
3942 until regression can be addressed.
3947 * Distribute #303: Make sure the manifest only ever contains UTF-8 in Python 3.
3948 * Distribute #329: Properly close files created by tests for compatibility with
3950 * Work around Jython #1980 and Jython #1981.
3951 * Distribute #334: Provide workaround for packages that reference ``sys.__stdout__``
3952 such as numpy does. This change should address
3953 `virtualenv #359 <https://github.com/pypa/virtualenv/issues/359>`_ as long
3954 as the system encoding is UTF-8 or the IO encoding is specified in the
3957 PYTHONIOENCODING=utf8 pip install numpy
3959 * Fix for encoding issue when installing from Windows executable on Python 3.
3960 * Distribute #323: Allow ``setup_requires`` requirements to supercede installed
3961 requirements. Added some new keyword arguments to existing pkg_resources
3962 methods. Also had to updated how __path__ is handled for namespace packages
3963 to ensure that when a new egg distribution containing a namespace package is
3964 placed on sys.path, the entries in __path__ are found in the same order they
3965 would have been in had that egg been on the path when pkg_resources was
3971 * Distribute #328: Clean up temporary directories in distribute_setup.py.
3972 * Fix fatal bug in distribute_setup.py.
3977 * BB Pull Request #14: Honor file permissions in zip files.
3978 * Distribute #327: Merged pull request #24 to fix a dependency problem with pip.
3979 * Merged pull request #23 to fix https://github.com/pypa/virtualenv/issues/301.
3980 * If Sphinx is installed, the ``upload_docs`` command now runs ``build_sphinx``
3981 to produce uploadable documentation.
3982 * Distribute #326: ``upload_docs`` provided mangled auth credentials under Python 3.
3983 * Distribute #320: Fix check for "createable" in distribute_setup.py.
3984 * Distribute #305: Remove a warning that was triggered during normal operations.
3985 * Distribute #311: Print metadata in UTF-8 independent of platform.
3986 * Distribute #303: Read manifest file with UTF-8 encoding under Python 3.
3987 * Distribute #301: Allow to run tests of namespace packages when using 2to3.
3988 * Distribute #304: Prevent import loop in site.py under Python 3.3.
3989 * Distribute #283: Reenable scanning of ``*.pyc`` / ``*.pyo`` files on Python 3.3.
3990 * Distribute #299: The develop command didn't work on Python 3, when using 2to3,
3991 as the egg link would go to the Python 2 source. Linking to the 2to3'd code
3992 in build/lib makes it work, although you will have to rebuild the module
3994 * Distribute #306: Even if 2to3 is used, we build in-place under Python 2.
3995 * Distribute #307: Prints the full path when .svn/entries is broken.
3996 * Distribute #313: Support for sdist subcommands (Python 2.7)
3997 * Distribute #314: test_local_index() would fail an OS X.
3998 * Distribute #310: Non-ascii characters in a namespace __init__.py causes errors.
3999 * Distribute #218: Improved documentation on behavior of ``package_data`` and
4000 ``include_package_data``. Files indicated by ``package_data`` are now included
4002 * ``distribute_setup.py`` now allows a ``--download-base`` argument for retrieving
4003 distribute from a specified location.
4008 * Distribute #294: setup.py can now be invoked from any directory.
4009 * Scripts are now installed honoring the umask.
4010 * Added support for .dist-info directories.
4011 * Distribute #283: Fix and disable scanning of ``*.pyc`` / ``*.pyo`` files on
4017 * Support current snapshots of CPython 3.3.
4018 * Distribute now recognizes README.rst as a standard, default readme file.
4019 * Exclude 'encodings' modules when removing modules from sys.modules.
4020 Workaround for #285.
4021 * Distribute #231: Don't fiddle with system python when used with buildout
4027 * Distribute #183: Symlinked files are now extracted from source distributions.
4028 * Distribute #227: Easy_install fetch parameters are now passed during the
4029 installation of a source distribution; now fulfillment of setup_requires
4030 dependencies will honor the parameters passed to easy_install.
4035 * Distribute #258: Workaround a cache issue
4036 * Distribute #260: distribute_setup.py now accepts the --user parameter for
4037 Python 2.6 and later.
4038 * Distribute #262: package_index.open_with_auth no longer throws LookupError
4040 * Distribute #269: AttributeError when an exception occurs reading Manifest.in
4041 on late releases of Python.
4042 * Distribute #272: Prevent TypeError when namespace package names are unicode
4043 and single-install-externally-managed is used. Also fixes PIP issue
4045 * Distribute #273: Legacy script launchers now install with Python2/3 support.
4050 * Distribute #249: Added options to exclude 2to3 fixers
4055 * Distribute #244: Fixed a test
4056 * Distribute #243: Fixed a test
4057 * Distribute #239: Fixed a test
4058 * Distribute #240: Fixed a test
4059 * Distribute #241: Fixed a test
4060 * Distribute #237: Fixed a test
4061 * Distribute #238: easy_install now uses 64bit executable wrappers on 64bit Python
4062 * Distribute #208: Fixed parsed_versions, it now honors post-releases as noted in the documentation
4063 * Distribute #207: Windows cli and gui wrappers pass CTRL-C to child python process
4064 * Distribute #227: easy_install now passes its arguments to setup.py bdist_egg
4065 * Distribute #225: Fixed a NameError on Python 2.5, 2.4
4070 * Distribute #225: FIxed a regression on py2.4
4075 * Distribute #135: Include url in warning when processing URLs in package_index.
4076 * Distribute #212: Fix issue where easy_instal fails on Python 3 on windows installer.
4077 * Distribute #213: Fix typo in documentation.
4082 * Distribute #206: AttributeError: 'HTTPMessage' object has no attribute 'getheaders'
4087 * Distribute #210: Fixed a regression introduced by Distribute #204 fix.
4092 * Support 'DISTRIBUTE_DISABLE_VERSIONED_EASY_INSTALL_SCRIPT' environment
4093 variable to allow to disable installation of easy_install-${version} script.
4094 * Support Python >=3.1.4 and >=3.2.1.
4095 * Distribute #204: Don't try to import the parent of a namespace package in
4097 * Distribute #196: Tolerate responses with multiple Content-Length headers
4098 * Distribute #205: Sandboxing doesn't preserve working_set. Leads to setup_requires
4104 * Builds sdist gztar even on Windows (avoiding Distribute #193).
4105 * Distribute #192: Fixed metadata omitted on Windows when package_dir
4106 specified with forward-slash.
4107 * Distribute #195: Cython build support.
4108 * Distribute #200: Issues with recognizing 64-bit packages on Windows.
4113 * Fixed typo in bdist_egg
4114 * Several issues under Python 3 has been solved.
4115 * Distribute #146: Fixed missing DLL files after easy_install of windows exe package.
4120 * Distribute #170: Fixed unittest failure. Thanks to Toshio.
4121 * Distribute #171: Fixed race condition in unittests cause deadlocks in test suite.
4122 * Distribute #143: Fixed a lookup issue with easy_install.
4123 Thanks to David and Zooko.
4124 * Distribute #174: Fixed the edit mode when its used with setuptools itself
4129 * Distribute #160: 2.7 gives ValueError("Invalid IPv6 URL")
4130 * Distribute #150: Fixed using ~/.local even in a --no-site-packages virtualenv
4131 * Distribute #163: scan index links before external links, and don't use the md5 when
4132 comparing two distributions
4137 * Distribute #149: Fixed various failures on 2.3/2.4
4142 * Found another case of SandboxViolation - fixed
4143 * Distribute #15 and Distribute #48: Introduced a socket timeout of 15 seconds on url openings
4144 * Added indexsidebar.html into MANIFEST.in
4145 * Distribute #108: Fixed TypeError with Python3.1
4146 * Distribute #121: Fixed --help install command trying to actually install.
4147 * Distribute #112: Added an os.makedirs so that Tarek's solution will work.
4148 * Distribute #133: Added --no-find-links to easy_install
4149 * Added easy_install --user
4150 * Distribute #100: Fixed develop --user not taking '.' in PYTHONPATH into account
4151 * Distribute #134: removed spurious UserWarnings. Patch by VanLindberg
4152 * Distribute #138: cant_write_to_target error when setup_requires is used.
4153 * Distribute #147: respect the sys.dont_write_bytecode flag
4158 * Reverted change made for the DistributionNotFound exception because
4159 zc.buildout uses the exception message to get the name of the
4165 * Distribute #90: unknown setuptools version can be added in the working set
4166 * Distribute #87: setupt.py doesn't try to convert distribute_setup.py anymore
4167 Initial Patch by arfrever.
4168 * Distribute #89: added a side bar with a download link to the doc.
4169 * Distribute #86: fixed missing sentence in pkg_resources doc.
4170 * Added a nicer error message when a DistributionNotFound is raised.
4171 * Distribute #80: test_develop now works with Python 3.1
4172 * Distribute #93: upload_docs now works if there is an empty sub-directory.
4173 * Distribute #70: exec bit on non-exec files
4174 * Distribute #99: now the standalone easy_install command doesn't uses a
4175 "setup.cfg" if any exists in the working directory. It will use it
4176 only if triggered by ``install_requires`` from a setup.py call
4177 (install, develop, etc).
4178 * Distribute #101: Allowing ``os.devnull`` in Sandbox
4179 * Distribute #92: Fixed the "no eggs" found error with MacPort
4180 (platform.mac_ver() fails)
4181 * Distribute #103: test_get_script_header_jython_workaround not run
4182 anymore under py3 with C or POSIX local. Contributed by Arfrever.
4183 * Distribute #104: remvoved the assertion when the installation fails,
4184 with a nicer message for the end user.
4185 * Distribute #100: making sure there's no SandboxViolation when
4186 the setup script patches setuptools.
4191 * Added "check_packages" in dist. (added in Setuptools 0.6c11)
4192 * Fixed the DONT_PATCH_SETUPTOOLS state.
4197 * Distribute #58: Added --user support to the develop command
4198 * Distribute #11: Generated scripts now wrap their call to the script entry point
4199 in the standard "if name == 'main'"
4200 * Added the 'DONT_PATCH_SETUPTOOLS' environment variable, so virtualenv
4201 can drive an installation that doesn't patch a global setuptools.
4202 * Reviewed unladen-swallow specific change from
4203 http://code.google.com/p/unladen-swallow/source/detail?spec=svn875&r=719
4204 and determined that it no longer applies. Distribute should work fine with
4205 Unladen Swallow 2009Q3.
4206 * Distribute #21: Allow PackageIndex.open_url to gracefully handle all cases of a
4207 httplib.HTTPException instead of just InvalidURL and BadStatusLine.
4208 * Removed virtual-python.py from this distribution and updated documentation
4209 to point to the actively maintained virtualenv instead.
4210 * Distribute #64: use_setuptools no longer rebuilds the distribute egg every
4212 * use_setuptools now properly respects the requested version
4213 * use_setuptools will no longer try to import a distribute egg for the
4214 wrong Python version
4215 * Distribute #74: no_fake should be True by default.
4216 * Distribute #72: avoid a bootstrapping issue with easy_install -U
4221 * Unified the bootstrap file so it works on both py2.x and py3k without 2to3
4222 (patch by Holger Krekel)
4227 * Distribute #65: cli.exe and gui.exe are now generated at build time,
4228 depending on the platform in use.
4230 * Distribute #67: Fixed doc typo (PEP 381/PEP 382).
4232 * Distribute no longer shadows setuptools if we require a 0.7-series
4233 setuptools. And an error is raised when installing a 0.7 setuptools with
4236 * When run from within buildout, no attempt is made to modify an existing
4237 setuptools egg, whether in a shared egg directory or a system setuptools.
4239 * Fixed a hole in sandboxing allowing builtin file to write outside of
4245 * Added the generation of ``distribute_setup_3k.py`` during the release.
4246 This closes Distribute #52.
4248 * Added an upload_docs command to easily upload project documentation to
4249 PyPI's https://pythonhosted.org. This close issue Distribute #56.
4251 * Fixed a bootstrap bug on the use_setuptools() API.
4259 * Fixed a bunch of calls to file() that caused crashes on Python 3.
4264 * Fixed a bug in sorting that caused bootstrap to fail on Python 3.
4272 * Added Python 3 support; see docs/python3.txt.
4273 This closes Old Setuptools #39.
4275 * Added option to run 2to3 automatically when installing on Python 3.
4276 This closes issue Distribute #31.
4278 * Fixed invalid usage of requirement.parse, that broke develop -d.
4279 This closes Old Setuptools #44.
4281 * Fixed script launcher for 64-bit Windows.
4282 This closes Old Setuptools #2.
4284 * KeyError when compiling extensions.
4285 This closes Old Setuptools #41.
4290 * Fixed bootstrap not working on Windows. This closes issue Distribute #49.
4292 * Fixed 2.6 dependencies. This closes issue Distribute #50.
4294 * Make sure setuptools is patched when running through easy_install
4295 This closes Old Setuptools #40.
4303 * package_index.urlopen now catches BadStatusLine and malformed url errors.
4304 This closes Distribute #16 and Distribute #18.
4306 * zip_ok is now False by default. This closes Old Setuptools #33.
4308 * Fixed invalid URL error catching. Old Setuptools #20.
4310 * Fixed invalid bootstraping with easy_install installation (Distribute #40).
4311 Thanks to Florian Schulze for the help.
4313 * Removed buildout/bootstrap.py. A new repository will create a specific
4314 bootstrap.py script.
4320 * The boostrap process leave setuptools alone if detected in the system
4321 and --root or --prefix is provided, but is not in the same location.
4322 This closes Distribute #10.
4330 * Packages required at build time where not fully present at install time.
4331 This closes Distribute #12.
4333 * Protected against failures in tarfile extraction. This closes Distribute #10.
4335 * Made Jython api_tests.txt doctest compatible. This closes Distribute #7.
4337 * sandbox.py replaced builtin type file with builtin function open. This
4338 closes Distribute #6.
4340 * Immediately close all file handles. This closes Distribute #3.
4342 * Added compatibility with Subversion 1.6. This references Distribute #1.
4347 * Avoid a call to /usr/bin/sw_vers on OSX and use the official platform API
4348 instead. Based on a patch from ronaldoussoren. This closes issue #5.
4350 * Fixed a SandboxViolation for mkdir that could occur in certain cases.
4351 This closes Distribute #13.
4353 * Allow to find_on_path on systems with tight permissions to fail gracefully.
4354 This closes Distribute #9.
4356 * Corrected inconsistency between documentation and code of add_entry.
4357 This closes Distribute #8.
4359 * Immediately close all file handles. This closes Distribute #3.
4364 * Immediately close all file handles. This closes Distribute #3.
4369 * Fixed a missing files problem when using Windows source distributions on
4370 non-Windows platforms, due to distutils not handling manifest file line
4373 * Updated Pyrex support to work with Pyrex 0.9.6 and higher.
4375 * Minor changes for Jython compatibility, including skipping tests that can't
4378 * Fixed not installing eggs in ``install_requires`` if they were also used for
4379 ``setup_requires`` or ``tests_require``.
4381 * Fixed not fetching eggs in ``install_requires`` when running tests.
4383 * Allow ``ez_setup.use_setuptools()`` to upgrade existing setuptools
4384 installations when called from a standalone ``setup.py``.
4386 * Added a warning if a namespace package is declared, but its parent package
4387 is not also declared as a namespace.
4389 * Support Subversion 1.5
4391 * Removed use of deprecated ``md5`` module if ``hashlib`` is available
4393 * Fixed ``bdist_wininst upload`` trying to upload the ``.exe`` twice
4395 * Fixed ``bdist_egg`` putting a ``native_libs.txt`` in the source package's
4396 ``.egg-info``, when it should only be in the built egg's ``EGG-INFO``.
4398 * Ensure that _full_name is set on all shared libs before extensions are
4399 checked for shared lib usage. (Fixes a bug in the experimental shared
4400 library build support.)
4402 * Fix to allow unpacked eggs containing native libraries to fail more
4403 gracefully under Google App Engine (with an ``ImportError`` loading the
4404 C-based module, instead of getting a ``NameError``).
4406 * Fixed ``win32.exe`` support for .pth files, so unnecessary directory nesting
4407 is flattened out in the resulting egg. (There was a case-sensitivity
4408 problem that affected some distributions, notably ``pywin32``.)
4410 * Prevent ``--help-commands`` and other junk from showing under Python 2.5
4411 when running ``easy_install --help``.
4413 * Fixed GUI scripts sometimes not executing on Windows
4415 * Fixed not picking up dependency links from recursive dependencies.
4417 * Only make ``.py``, ``.dll`` and ``.so`` files executable when unpacking eggs
4419 * Changes for Jython compatibility
4421 * Improved error message when a requirement is also a directory name, but the
4422 specified directory is not a source package.
4424 * Fixed ``--allow-hosts`` option blocking ``file:`` URLs
4426 * Fixed HTTP SVN detection failing when the page title included a project
4427 name (e.g. on SourceForge-hosted SVN)
4429 * Fix Jython script installation to handle ``#!`` lines better when
4430 ``sys.executable`` is a script.
4432 * Removed use of deprecated ``md5`` module if ``hashlib`` is available
4434 * Keep site directories (e.g. ``site-packages``) from being included in
4440 * Fixed ``distutils.filelist.findall()`` crashing on broken symlinks, and
4441 ``egg_info`` command failing on new, uncommitted SVN directories.
4443 * Fix import problems with nested namespace packages installed via
4444 ``--root`` or ``--single-version-externally-managed``, due to the
4445 parent package not having the child package as an attribute.
4447 * ``ftp:`` download URLs now work correctly.
4449 * The default ``--index-url`` is now ``https://pypi.python.org/simple``, to use
4450 the Python Package Index's new simpler (and faster!) REST API.
4455 * Added ``--egg-path`` option to ``develop`` command, allowing you to force
4456 ``.egg-link`` files to use relative paths (allowing them to be shared across
4457 platforms on a networked drive).
4459 * Fix not building binary RPMs correctly.
4461 * Fix "eggsecutables" (such as setuptools' own egg) only being runnable with
4462 bash-compatible shells.
4464 * Fix ``#!`` parsing problems in Windows ``.exe`` script wrappers, when there
4465 was whitespace inside a quoted argument or at the end of the ``#!`` line
4466 (a regression introduced in 0.6c4).
4468 * Fix ``test`` command possibly failing if an older version of the project
4469 being tested was installed on ``sys.path`` ahead of the test source
4472 * Fix ``find_packages()`` treating ``ez_setup`` and directories with ``.`` in
4473 their names as packages.
4475 * EasyInstall no longer aborts the installation process if a URL it wants to
4476 retrieve can't be downloaded, unless the URL is an actual package download.
4477 Instead, it issues a warning and tries to keep going.
4479 * Fixed distutils-style scripts originally built on Windows having their line
4480 endings doubled when installed on any platform.
4482 * Added ``--local-snapshots-ok`` flag, to allow building eggs from projects
4483 installed using ``setup.py develop``.
4485 * Fixed not HTML-decoding URLs scraped from web pages
4490 * Fix uploaded ``bdist_rpm`` packages being described as ``bdist_egg``
4491 packages under Python versions less than 2.5.
4493 * Fix uploaded ``bdist_wininst`` packages being described as suitable for
4494 "any" version by Python 2.5, even if a ``--target-version`` was specified.
4496 * Fixed ``.dll`` files on Cygwin not having executable permissions when an egg
4497 is installed unzipped.
4502 * Overhauled Windows script wrapping to support ``bdist_wininst`` better.
4503 Scripts installed with ``bdist_wininst`` will always use ``#!python.exe`` or
4504 ``#!pythonw.exe`` as the executable name (even when built on non-Windows
4505 platforms!), and the wrappers will look for the executable in the script's
4506 parent directory (which should find the right version of Python).
4508 * Fix ``upload`` command not uploading files built by ``bdist_rpm`` or
4509 ``bdist_wininst`` under Python 2.3 and 2.4.
4511 * Add support for "eggsecutable" headers: a ``#!/bin/sh`` script that is
4512 prepended to an ``.egg`` file to allow it to be run as a script on Unix-ish
4513 platforms. (This is mainly so that setuptools itself can have a single-file
4514 installer on Unix, without doing multiple downloads, dealing with firewalls,
4517 * Fix problem with empty revision numbers in Subversion 1.4 ``entries`` files
4519 * Use cross-platform relative paths in ``easy-install.pth`` when doing
4520 ``develop`` and the source directory is a subdirectory of the installation
4523 * Fix a problem installing eggs with a system packaging tool if the project
4524 contained an implicit namespace package; for example if the ``setup()``
4525 listed a namespace package ``foo.bar`` without explicitly listing ``foo``
4526 as a namespace package.
4528 * Added support for HTTP "Basic" authentication using ``http://user:pass@host``
4529 URLs. If a password-protected page contains links to the same host (and
4530 protocol), those links will inherit the credentials used to access the
4533 * Removed all special support for Sourceforge mirrors, as Sourceforge's
4534 mirror system now works well for non-browser downloads.
4536 * Fixed not recognizing ``win32.exe`` installers that included a custom
4539 * Fixed not allowing ``os.open()`` of paths outside the sandbox, even if they
4540 are opened read-only (e.g. reading ``/dev/urandom`` for random numbers, as
4541 is done by ``os.urandom()`` on some platforms).
4543 * Fixed a problem with ``.pth`` testing on Windows when ``sys.executable``
4544 has a space in it (e.g., the user installed Python to a ``Program Files``
4550 * Fixed breakages caused by Subversion 1.4's new "working copy" format
4552 * You can once again use "python -m easy_install" with Python 2.4 and above.
4554 * Python 2.5 compatibility fixes added.
4559 * The ``ez_setup`` module displays the conflicting version of setuptools (and
4560 its installation location) when a script requests a version that's not
4563 * Running ``setup.py develop`` on a setuptools-using project will now install
4564 setuptools if needed, instead of only downloading the egg.
4566 * Windows script wrappers now support quoted arguments and arguments
4567 containing spaces. (Patch contributed by Jim Fulton.)
4569 * The ``ez_setup.py`` script now actually works when you put a setuptools
4570 ``.egg`` alongside it for bootstrapping an offline machine.
4572 * A writable installation directory on ``sys.path`` is no longer required to
4573 download and extract a source distribution using ``--editable``.
4575 * Generated scripts now use ``-x`` on the ``#!`` line when ``sys.executable``
4576 contains non-ASCII characters, to prevent deprecation warnings about an
4577 unspecified encoding when the script is run.
4582 * Fixed ``AttributeError`` when trying to download a ``setup_requires``
4583 dependency when a distribution lacks a ``dependency_links`` setting.
4585 * Made ``zip-safe`` and ``not-zip-safe`` flag files contain a single byte, so
4586 as to play better with packaging tools that complain about zero-length
4589 * Made ``setup.py develop`` respect the ``--no-deps`` option, which it
4590 previously was ignoring.
4592 * Support ``extra_path`` option to ``setup()`` when ``install`` is run in
4593 backward-compatibility mode.
4595 * Source distributions now always include a ``setup.cfg`` file that explicitly
4596 sets ``egg_info`` options such that they produce an identical version number
4597 to the source distribution's version number. (Previously, the default
4598 version number could be different due to the use of ``--tag-date``, or if
4599 the version was overridden on the command line that built the source
4602 * EasyInstall now includes setuptools version information in the
4603 ``User-Agent`` string sent to websites it visits.
4608 * Fix ``register`` not obeying name/version set by ``egg_info`` command, if
4609 ``egg_info`` wasn't explicitly run first on the same command line.
4611 * Added ``--no-date`` and ``--no-svn-revision`` options to ``egg_info``
4612 command, to allow suppressing tags configured in ``setup.cfg``.
4614 * Fixed redundant warnings about missing ``README`` file(s); it should now
4615 appear only if you are actually a source distribution.
4617 * Fix creating Python wrappers for non-Python scripts
4619 * Fix ``ftp://`` directory listing URLs from causing a crash when used in the
4620 "Home page" or "Download URL" slots on PyPI.
4622 * Fix ``sys.path_importer_cache`` not being updated when an existing zipfile
4623 or directory is deleted/overwritten.
4625 * Fix not recognizing HTML 404 pages from package indexes.
4627 * Allow ``file://`` URLs to be used as a package index. URLs that refer to
4628 directories will use an internally-generated directory listing if there is
4629 no ``index.html`` file in the directory.
4631 * Allow external links in a package index to be specified using
4632 ``rel="homepage"`` or ``rel="download"``, without needing the old
4633 PyPI-specific visible markup.
4635 * Suppressed warning message about possibly-misspelled project name, if an egg
4636 or link for that project name has already been seen.
4641 * Fix ``bdist_egg`` not including files in subdirectories of ``.egg-info``.
4643 * Allow ``.py`` files found by the ``include_package_data`` option to be
4644 automatically included. Remove duplicate data file matches if both
4645 ``include_package_data`` and ``package_data`` are used to refer to the same
4648 * Fix local ``--find-links`` eggs not being copied except with
4651 * Fix sometimes not detecting local packages installed outside of "site"
4654 * Fix mysterious errors during initial ``setuptools`` install, caused by
4655 ``ez_setup`` trying to run ``easy_install`` twice, due to a code fallthru
4656 after deleting the egg from which it's running.
4661 * Don't install or update a ``site.py`` patch when installing to a
4662 ``PYTHONPATH`` directory with ``--multi-version``, unless an
4663 ``easy-install.pth`` file is already in use there.
4665 * Construct ``.pth`` file paths in such a way that installing an egg whose
4666 name begins with ``import`` doesn't cause a syntax error.
4668 * Fixed a bogus warning message that wasn't updated since the 0.5 versions.
4673 * Strip ``module`` from the end of compiled extension modules when computing
4674 the name of a ``.py`` loader/wrapper. (Python's import machinery ignores
4675 this suffix when searching for an extension module.)
4677 * Better ambiguity management: accept ``#egg`` name/version even if processing
4678 what appears to be a correctly-named distutils file, and ignore ``.egg``
4679 files with no ``-``, since valid Python ``.egg`` files always have a version
4680 number (but Scheme eggs often don't).
4682 * Support ``file://`` links to directories in ``--find-links``, so that
4683 easy_install can build packages from local source checkouts.
4685 * Added automatic retry for Sourceforge mirrors. The new download process is
4686 to first just try dl.sourceforge.net, then randomly select mirror IPs and
4687 remove ones that fail, until something works. The removed IPs stay removed
4688 for the remainder of the run.
4690 * Ignore bdist_dumb distributions when looking at download URLs.
4695 * Added ``test_loader`` keyword to support custom test loaders
4697 * Added ``setuptools.file_finders`` entry point group to allow implementing
4698 revision control plugins.
4700 * Added ``--identity`` option to ``upload`` command.
4702 * Added ``dependency_links`` to allow specifying URLs for ``--find-links``.
4704 * Enhanced test loader to scan packages as well as modules, and call
4705 ``additional_tests()`` if present to get non-unittest tests.
4707 * Support namespace packages in conjunction with system packagers, by omitting
4708 the installation of any ``__init__.py`` files for namespace packages, and
4709 adding a special ``.pth`` file to create a working package in
4712 * Made ``--single-version-externally-managed`` automatic when ``--root`` is
4713 used, so that most system packagers won't require special support for
4716 * Fixed ``setup_requires``, ``tests_require``, etc. not using ``setup.cfg`` or
4717 other configuration files for their option defaults when installing, and
4718 also made the install use ``--multi-version`` mode so that the project
4719 directory doesn't need to support .pth files.
4721 * ``MANIFEST.in`` is now forcibly closed when any errors occur while reading
4722 it. Previously, the file could be left open and the actual error would be
4723 masked by problems trying to remove the open file on Windows systems.
4725 * Process ``dependency_links.txt`` if found in a distribution, by adding the
4726 URLs to the list for scanning.
4728 * Use relative paths in ``.pth`` files when eggs are being installed to the
4729 same directory as the ``.pth`` file. This maximizes portability of the
4730 target directory when building applications that contain eggs.
4732 * Added ``easy_install-N.N`` script(s) for convenience when using multiple
4735 * Added automatic handling of installation conflicts. Eggs are now shifted to
4736 the front of sys.path, in an order consistent with where they came from,
4737 making EasyInstall seamlessly co-operate with system package managers.
4739 The ``--delete-conflicting`` and ``--ignore-conflicts-at-my-risk`` options
4740 are now no longer necessary, and will generate warnings at the end of a
4741 run if you use them.
4743 * Don't recursively traverse subdirectories given to ``--find-links``.
4748 * Fixed the ``develop`` command ignoring ``--find-links``.
4750 * Added exhaustive testing of the install directory, including a spawn test
4751 for ``.pth`` file support, and directory writability/existence checks. This
4752 should virtually eliminate the need to set or configure ``--site-dirs``.
4754 * Added ``--prefix`` option for more do-what-I-mean-ishness in the absence of
4757 * Enhanced ``PYTHONPATH`` support so that you don't have to put any eggs on it
4758 manually to make it work. ``--multi-version`` is no longer a silent
4759 default; you must explicitly use it if installing to a non-PYTHONPATH,
4760 non-"site" directory.
4762 * Expand ``$variables`` used in the ``--site-dirs``, ``--build-directory``,
4763 ``--install-dir``, and ``--script-dir`` options, whether on the command line
4764 or in configuration files.
4766 * Improved SourceForge mirror processing to work faster and be less affected
4767 by transient HTML changes made by SourceForge.
4769 * PyPI searches now use the exact spelling of requirements specified on the
4770 command line or in a project's ``install_requires``. Previously, a
4771 normalized form of the name was used, which could lead to unnecessary
4772 full-index searches when a project's name had an underscore (``_``) in it.
4774 * EasyInstall can now download bare ``.py`` files and wrap them in an egg,
4775 as long as you include an ``#egg=name-version`` suffix on the URL, or if
4776 the ``.py`` file is listed as the "Download URL" on the project's PyPI page.
4777 This allows third parties to "package" trivial Python modules just by
4778 linking to them (e.g. from within their own PyPI page or download links
4781 * The ``--always-copy`` option now skips "system" and "development" eggs since
4782 they can't be reliably copied. Note that this may cause EasyInstall to
4783 choose an older version of a package than what you expected, or it may cause
4784 downloading and installation of a fresh version of what's already installed.
4786 * The ``--find-links`` option previously scanned all supplied URLs and
4787 directories as early as possible, but now only directories and direct
4788 archive links are scanned immediately. URLs are not retrieved unless a
4789 package search was already going to go online due to a package not being
4790 available locally, or due to the use of the ``--update`` or ``-U`` option.
4792 * Fixed the annoying ``--help-commands`` wart.
4797 * The ``sdist`` command no longer uses the traditional ``MANIFEST`` file to
4798 create source distributions. ``MANIFEST.in`` is still read and processed,
4799 as are the standard defaults and pruning. But the manifest is built inside
4800 the project's ``.egg-info`` directory as ``SOURCES.txt``, and it is rebuilt
4801 every time the ``egg_info`` command is run.
4803 * Added the ``include_package_data`` keyword to ``setup()``, allowing you to
4804 automatically include any package data listed in revision control or
4807 * Added the ``exclude_package_data`` keyword to ``setup()``, allowing you to
4808 trim back files included via the ``package_data`` and
4809 ``include_package_data`` options.
4811 * Fixed ``--tag-svn-revision`` not working when run from a source
4814 * Added warning for namespace packages with missing ``declare_namespace()``
4816 * Added ``tests_require`` keyword to ``setup()``, so that e.g. packages
4817 requiring ``nose`` to run unit tests can make this dependency optional
4818 unless the ``test`` command is run.
4820 * Made all commands that use ``easy_install`` respect its configuration
4821 options, as this was causing some problems with ``setup.py install``.
4823 * Added an ``unpack_directory()`` driver to ``setuptools.archive_util``, so
4824 that you can process a directory tree through a processing filter as if it
4825 were a zipfile or tarfile.
4827 * Added an internal ``install_egg_info`` command to use as part of old-style
4828 ``install`` operations, that installs an ``.egg-info`` directory with the
4831 * Added a ``--single-version-externally-managed`` option to the ``install``
4832 command so that you can more easily wrap a "flat" egg in a system package.
4834 * Enhanced ``bdist_rpm`` so that it installs single-version eggs that
4835 don't rely on a ``.pth`` file. The ``--no-egg`` option has been removed,
4836 since all RPMs are now built in a more backwards-compatible format.
4838 * Support full roundtrip translation of eggs to and from ``bdist_wininst``
4839 format. Running ``bdist_wininst`` on a setuptools-based package wraps the
4840 egg in an .exe that will safely install it as an egg (i.e., with metadata
4841 and entry-point wrapper scripts), and ``easy_install`` can turn the .exe
4842 back into an ``.egg`` file or directory and install it as such.
4844 * Fixed ``.pth`` file processing picking up nested eggs (i.e. ones inside
4845 "baskets") when they weren't explicitly listed in the ``.pth`` file.
4847 * If more than one URL appears to describe the exact same distribution, prefer
4848 the shortest one. This helps to avoid "table of contents" CGI URLs like the
4851 * Quote arguments to python.exe (including python's path) to avoid problems
4852 when Python (or a script) is installed in a directory whose name contains
4855 * Support full roundtrip translation of eggs to and from ``bdist_wininst``
4856 format. Running ``bdist_wininst`` on a setuptools-based package wraps the
4857 egg in an .exe that will safely install it as an egg (i.e., with metadata
4858 and entry-point wrapper scripts), and ``easy_install`` can turn the .exe
4859 back into an ``.egg`` file or directory and install it as such.
4864 * Fixed some problems building extensions when Pyrex was installed, especially
4865 with Python 2.4 and/or packages using SWIG.
4867 * Made ``develop`` command accept all the same options as ``easy_install``,
4868 and use the ``easy_install`` command's configuration settings as defaults.
4870 * Made ``egg_info --tag-svn-revision`` fall back to extracting the revision
4871 number from ``PKG-INFO`` in case it is being run on a source distribution of
4872 a snapshot taken from a Subversion-based project.
4874 * Automatically detect ``.dll``, ``.so`` and ``.dylib`` files that are being
4875 installed as data, adding them to ``native_libs.txt`` automatically.
4877 * Fixed some problems with fresh checkouts of projects that don't include
4878 ``.egg-info/PKG-INFO`` under revision control and put the project's source
4879 code directly in the project directory. If such a package had any
4880 requirements that get processed before the ``egg_info`` command can be run,
4881 the setup scripts would fail with a "Missing 'Version:' header and/or
4882 PKG-INFO file" error, because the egg runtime interpreted the unbuilt
4883 metadata in a directory on ``sys.path`` (i.e. the current directory) as
4884 being a corrupted egg. Setuptools now monkeypatches the distribution
4885 metadata cache to pretend that the egg has valid version information, until
4886 it has a chance to make it actually be so (via the ``egg_info`` command).
4888 * Update for changed SourceForge mirror format
4890 * Fixed not installing dependencies for some packages fetched via Subversion
4892 * Fixed dependency installation with ``--always-copy`` not using the same
4893 dependency resolution procedure as other operations.
4895 * Fixed not fully removing temporary directories on Windows, if a Subversion
4896 checkout left read-only files behind
4898 * Fixed some problems building extensions when Pyrex was installed, especially
4899 with Python 2.4 and/or packages using SWIG.
4904 * Fixed not being able to install Windows script wrappers using Python 2.3
4909 * Added support for "traditional" PYTHONPATH-based non-root installation, and
4910 also the convenient ``virtual-python.py`` script, based on a contribution
4911 by Ian Bicking. The setuptools egg now contains a hacked ``site`` module
4912 that makes the PYTHONPATH-based approach work with .pth files, so that you
4913 can get the full EasyInstall feature set on such installations.
4915 * Added ``--no-deps`` and ``--allow-hosts`` options.
4917 * Improved Windows ``.exe`` script wrappers so that the script can have the
4918 same name as a module without confusing Python.
4920 * Changed dependency processing so that it's breadth-first, allowing a
4921 depender's preferences to override those of a dependee, to prevent conflicts
4922 when a lower version is acceptable to the dependee, but not the depender.
4923 Also, ensure that currently installed/selected packages aren't given
4924 precedence over ones desired by a package being installed, which could
4925 cause conflict errors.
4930 * Fixed missing gui/cli .exe files in distribution. Fixed bugs in tests.
4935 * Added ``gui_scripts`` entry point group to allow installing GUI scripts
4936 on Windows and other platforms. (The special handling is only for Windows;
4937 other platforms are treated the same as for ``console_scripts``.)
4939 * Improved error message when trying to use old ways of running
4940 ``easy_install``. Removed the ability to run via ``python -m`` or by
4941 running ``easy_install.py``; ``easy_install`` is the command to run on all
4942 supported platforms.
4944 * Improved wrapper script generation and runtime initialization so that a
4945 VersionConflict doesn't occur if you later install a competing version of a
4946 needed package as the default version of that package.
4948 * Fixed a problem parsing version numbers in ``#egg=`` links.
4953 * Added ``console_scripts`` entry point group to allow installing scripts
4954 without the need to create separate script files. On Windows, console
4955 scripts get an ``.exe`` wrapper so you can just type their name. On other
4956 platforms, the scripts are written without a file extension.
4958 * EasyInstall can now install "console_scripts" defined by packages that use
4959 ``setuptools`` and define appropriate entry points. On Windows, console
4960 scripts get an ``.exe`` wrapper so you can just type their name. On other
4961 platforms, the scripts are installed without a file extension.
4963 * Using ``python -m easy_install`` or running ``easy_install.py`` is now
4964 DEPRECATED, since an ``easy_install`` wrapper is now available on all
4970 * Added support for building "old-style" RPMs that don't install an egg for
4971 the target package, using a ``--no-egg`` option.
4973 * The ``build_ext`` command now works better when using the ``--inplace``
4974 option and multiple Python versions. It now makes sure that all extensions
4975 match the current Python version, even if newer copies were built for a
4976 different Python version.
4978 * The ``upload`` command no longer attaches an extra ``.zip`` when uploading
4979 eggs, as PyPI now supports egg uploads without trickery.
4981 * The ``ez_setup`` script/module now displays a warning before downloading
4982 the setuptools egg, and attempts to check the downloaded egg against an
4983 internal MD5 checksum table.
4985 * Fixed the ``--tag-svn-revision`` option of ``egg_info`` not finding the
4986 latest revision number; it was using the revision number of the directory
4987 containing ``setup.py``, not the highest revision number in the project.
4989 * Added ``eager_resources`` setup argument
4991 * The ``sdist`` command now recognizes Subversion "deleted file" entries and
4992 does not include them in source distributions.
4994 * ``setuptools`` now embeds itself more thoroughly into the distutils, so that
4995 other distutils extensions (e.g. py2exe, py2app) will subclass setuptools'
4996 versions of things, rather than the native distutils ones.
4998 * Added ``entry_points`` and ``setup_requires`` arguments to ``setup()``;
4999 ``setup_requires`` allows you to automatically find and download packages
5000 that are needed in order to *build* your project (as opposed to running it).
5002 * ``setuptools`` now finds its commands, ``setup()`` argument validators, and
5003 metadata writers using entry points, so that they can be extended by
5004 third-party packages. See `Creating distutils Extensions
5005 <https://setuptools.readthedocs.io/en/latest/setuptools.html#creating-distutils-extensions>`_
5008 * The vestigial ``depends`` command has been removed. It was never finished
5009 or documented, and never would have worked without EasyInstall - which it
5010 pre-dated and was never compatible with.
5012 * EasyInstall now does MD5 validation of downloads from PyPI, or from any link
5013 that has an "#md5=..." trailer with a 32-digit lowercase hex md5 digest.
5015 * EasyInstall now handles symlinks in target directories by removing the link,
5016 rather than attempting to overwrite the link's destination. This makes it
5017 easier to set up an alternate Python "home" directory (as described in
5018 the Non-Root Installation section of the docs).
5020 * Added support for handling MacOS platform information in ``.egg`` filenames,
5021 based on a contribution by Kevin Dangoor. You may wish to delete and
5022 reinstall any eggs whose filename includes "darwin" and "Power_Macintosh",
5023 because the format for this platform information has changed so that minor
5024 OS X upgrades (such as 10.4.1 to 10.4.2) do not cause eggs built with a
5025 previous OS version to become obsolete.
5027 * easy_install's dependency processing algorithms have changed. When using
5028 ``--always-copy``, it now ensures that dependencies are copied too. When
5029 not using ``--always-copy``, it tries to use a single resolution loop,
5030 rather than recursing.
5032 * Fixed installing extra ``.pyc`` or ``.pyo`` files for scripts with ``.py``
5035 * Added ``--site-dirs`` option to allow adding custom "site" directories.
5036 Made ``easy-install.pth`` work in platform-specific alternate site
5037 directories (e.g. ``~/Library/Python/2.x/site-packages`` on Mac OS X).
5039 * If you manually delete the current version of a package, the next run of
5040 EasyInstall against the target directory will now remove the stray entry
5041 from the ``easy-install.pth`` file.
5043 * EasyInstall now recognizes URLs with a ``#egg=project_name`` fragment ID
5044 as pointing to the named project's source checkout. Such URLs have a lower
5045 match precedence than any other kind of distribution, so they'll only be
5046 used if they have a higher version number than any other available
5047 distribution, or if you use the ``--editable`` option. The ``#egg``
5048 fragment can contain a version if it's formatted as ``#egg=proj-ver``,
5049 where ``proj`` is the project name, and ``ver`` is the version number. You
5050 *must* use the format for these values that the ``bdist_egg`` command uses;
5051 i.e., all non-alphanumeric runs must be condensed to single underscore
5054 * Added the ``--editable`` option; see Editing and Viewing Source Packages
5055 in the docs. Also, slightly changed the behavior of the
5056 ``--build-directory`` option.
5058 * Fixed the setup script sandbox facility not recognizing certain paths as
5059 valid on case-insensitive platforms.
5064 * The zip-safety scanner now checks for modules that might be used with
5065 ``python -m``, and marks them as unsafe for zipping, since Python 2.4 can't
5066 handle ``-m`` on zipped modules.
5068 * Fix ``python -m easy_install`` not working due to setuptools being installed
5069 as a zipfile. Update safety scanner to check for modules that might be used
5070 as ``python -m`` scripts.
5072 * Misc. fixes for win32.exe support, including changes to support Python 2.4's
5073 changed ``bdist_wininst`` format.
5078 * Fix breakage of the "develop" command that was caused by the addition of
5079 ``--always-unzip`` to the ``easy_install`` command.
5084 * Put the ``easy_install`` module back in as a module, as it's needed for
5085 ``python -m`` to run it!
5087 * Allow ``--find-links/-f`` to accept local directories or filenames as well
5093 * Include ``svn:externals`` directories in source distributions as well as
5094 normal subversion-controlled files and directories.
5096 * Added ``exclude=patternlist`` option to ``setuptools.find_packages()``
5098 * Changed --tag-svn-revision to include an "r" in front of the revision number
5099 for better readability.
5101 * Added ability to build eggs without including source files (except for any
5102 scripts, of course), using the ``--exclude-source-files`` option to
5105 * ``setup.py install`` now automatically detects when an "unmanaged" package
5106 or module is going to be on ``sys.path`` ahead of a package being installed,
5107 thereby preventing the newer version from being imported. If this occurs,
5108 a warning message is output to ``sys.stderr``, but installation proceeds
5109 anyway. The warning message informs the user what files or directories
5110 need deleting, and advises them they can also use EasyInstall (with the
5111 ``--delete-conflicting`` option) to do it automatically.
5113 * The ``egg_info`` command now adds a ``top_level.txt`` file to the metadata
5114 directory that lists all top-level modules and packages in the distribution.
5115 This is used by the ``easy_install`` command to find possibly-conflicting
5116 "unmanaged" packages when installing the distribution.
5118 * Added ``zip_safe`` and ``namespace_packages`` arguments to ``setup()``.
5119 Added package analysis to determine zip-safety if the ``zip_safe`` flag
5120 is not given, and advise the author regarding what code might need changing.
5122 * Fixed the swapped ``-d`` and ``-b`` options of ``bdist_egg``.
5124 * EasyInstall now automatically detects when an "unmanaged" package or
5125 module is going to be on ``sys.path`` ahead of a package you're installing,
5126 thereby preventing the newer version from being imported. By default, it
5127 will abort installation to alert you of the problem, but there are also
5128 new options (``--delete-conflicting`` and ``--ignore-conflicts-at-my-risk``)
5129 available to change the default behavior. (Note: this new feature doesn't
5130 take effect for egg files that were built with older ``setuptools``
5131 versions, because they lack the new metadata file required to implement it.)
5133 * The ``easy_install`` distutils command now uses ``DistutilsError`` as its
5134 base error type for errors that should just issue a message to stderr and
5135 exit the program without a traceback.
5137 * EasyInstall can now be given a path to a directory containing a setup
5138 script, and it will attempt to build and install the package there.
5140 * EasyInstall now performs a safety analysis on module contents to determine
5141 whether a package is likely to run in zipped form, and displays
5142 information about what modules may be doing introspection that would break
5143 when running as a zipfile.
5145 * Added the ``--always-unzip/-Z`` option, to force unzipping of packages that
5146 would ordinarily be considered safe to unzip, and changed the meaning of
5147 ``--zip-ok/-z`` to "always leave everything zipped".
5152 * The "egg_info" command now always sets the distribution metadata to "safe"
5153 forms of the distribution name and version, so that distribution files will
5154 be generated with parseable names (i.e., ones that don't include '-' in the
5155 name or version). Also, this means that if you use the various ``--tag``
5156 options of "egg_info", any distributions generated will use the tags in the
5157 version, not just egg distributions.
5159 * Added support for defining command aliases in distutils configuration files,
5160 under the "[aliases]" section. To prevent recursion and to allow aliases to
5161 call the command of the same name, a given alias can be expanded only once
5162 per command-line invocation. You can define new aliases with the "alias"
5163 command, either for the local, global, or per-user configuration.
5165 * Added "rotate" command to delete old distribution files, given a set of
5166 patterns to match and the number of files to keep. (Keeps the most
5167 recently-modified distribution files matching each pattern.)
5169 * Added "saveopts" command that saves all command-line options for the current
5170 invocation to the local, global, or per-user configuration file. Useful for
5171 setting defaults without having to hand-edit a configuration file.
5173 * Added a "setopt" command that sets a single option in a specified distutils
5176 * There is now a separate documentation page for setuptools; revision
5177 history that's not specific to EasyInstall has been moved to that page.
5182 * Added "upload" support for egg and source distributions, including a bug
5183 fix for "upload" and a temporary workaround for lack of .egg support in
5189 * Beefed up the "sdist" command so that if you don't have a MANIFEST.in, it
5190 will include all files under revision control (CVS or Subversion) in the
5191 current directory, and it will regenerate the list every time you create a
5192 source distribution, not just when you tell it to. This should make the
5193 default "do what you mean" more often than the distutils' default behavior
5194 did, while still retaining the old behavior in the presence of MANIFEST.in.
5196 * Fixed the "develop" command always updating .pth files, even if you
5197 specified ``-n`` or ``--dry-run``.
5199 * Slightly changed the format of the generated version when you use
5200 ``--tag-build`` on the "egg_info" command, so that you can make tagged
5201 revisions compare *lower* than the version specified in setup.py (e.g. by
5202 using ``--tag-build=dev``).
5207 * Added ``develop`` command to ``setuptools``-based packages. This command
5208 installs an ``.egg-link`` pointing to the package's source directory, and
5209 script wrappers that ``execfile()`` the source versions of the package's
5210 scripts. This lets you put your development checkout(s) on sys.path without
5211 having to actually install them. (To uninstall the link, use
5212 use ``setup.py develop --uninstall``.)
5214 * Added ``egg_info`` command to ``setuptools``-based packages. This command
5215 just creates or updates the "projectname.egg-info" directory, without
5216 building an egg. (It's used by the ``bdist_egg``, ``test``, and ``develop``
5219 * Enhanced the ``test`` command so that it doesn't install the package, but
5220 instead builds any C extensions in-place, updates the ``.egg-info``
5221 metadata, adds the source directory to ``sys.path``, and runs the tests
5222 directly on the source. This avoids an "unmanaged" installation of the
5223 package to ``site-packages`` or elsewhere.
5225 * Made ``easy_install`` a standard ``setuptools`` command, moving it from
5226 the ``easy_install`` module to ``setuptools.command.easy_install``. Note
5227 that if you were importing or extending it, you must now change your imports
5228 accordingly. ``easy_install.py`` is still installed as a script, but not as
5234 * Setup scripts using setuptools can now list their dependencies directly in
5235 the setup.py file, without having to manually create a ``depends.txt`` file.
5236 The ``install_requires`` and ``extras_require`` arguments to ``setup()``
5237 are used to create a dependencies file automatically. If you are manually
5238 creating ``depends.txt`` right now, please switch to using these setup
5239 arguments as soon as practical, because ``depends.txt`` support will be
5240 removed in the 0.6 release cycle. For documentation on the new arguments,
5241 see the ``setuptools.dist.Distribution`` class.
5243 * Setup scripts using setuptools now always install using ``easy_install``
5244 internally, for ease of uninstallation and upgrading.
5246 * Added ``--always-copy/-a`` option to always copy needed packages to the
5247 installation directory, even if they're already present elsewhere on
5248 sys.path. (In previous versions, this was the default behavior, but now
5249 you must request it.)
5251 * Added ``--upgrade/-U`` option to force checking PyPI for latest available
5252 version(s) of all packages requested by name and version, even if a matching
5253 version is available locally.
5255 * Added automatic installation of dependencies declared by a distribution
5256 being installed. These dependencies must be listed in the distribution's
5257 ``EGG-INFO`` directory, so the distribution has to have declared its
5258 dependencies by using setuptools. If a package has requirements it didn't
5259 declare, you'll still have to deal with them yourself. (E.g., by asking
5260 EasyInstall to find and install them.)
5262 * Added the ``--record`` option to ``easy_install`` for the benefit of tools
5263 that run ``setup.py install --record=filename`` on behalf of another
5269 * Fixed not setting script permissions to allow execution.
5271 * Improved sandboxing so that setup scripts that want a temporary directory
5272 (e.g. pychecker) can still run in the sandbox.
5277 * Fix stupid stupid refactoring-at-the-last-minute typos. :(
5282 * Added support for "self-installation" bootstrapping. Packages can now
5283 include ``ez_setup.py`` in their source distribution, and add the following
5284 to their ``setup.py``, in order to automatically bootstrap installation of
5285 setuptools as part of their setup process::
5287 from ez_setup import use_setuptools
5290 from setuptools import setup
5293 * Added support for converting ``.win32.exe`` installers to eggs on the fly.
5294 EasyInstall will now recognize such files by name and install them.
5296 * Fixed a problem with picking the "best" version to install (versions were
5297 being sorted as strings, rather than as parsed values)
5302 * Added support for the distutils "verbose/quiet" and "dry-run" options, as
5303 well as the "optimize" flag.
5305 * Support downloading packages that were uploaded to PyPI (by scanning all
5306 links on package pages, not just the homepage/download links).
5311 * Add progress messages to the search/download process so that you can tell
5312 what URLs it's reading to find download links. (Hopefully, this will help
5313 people report out-of-date and broken links to package authors, and to tell
5314 when they've asked for a package that doesn't exist.)
5319 * Added ``ez_setup.py`` installer/bootstrap script to make initial setuptools
5320 installation easier, and to allow distributions using setuptools to avoid
5321 having to include setuptools in their source distribution.
5323 * All downloads are now managed by the ``PackageIndex`` class (which is now
5324 subclassable and replaceable), so that embedders can more easily override
5325 download logic, give download progress reports, etc. The class has also
5326 been moved to the new ``setuptools.package_index`` module.
5328 * The ``Installer`` class no longer handles downloading, manages a temporary
5329 directory, or tracks the ``zip_ok`` option. Downloading is now handled
5330 by ``PackageIndex``, and ``Installer`` has become an ``easy_install``
5331 command class based on ``setuptools.Command``.
5333 * There is a new ``setuptools.sandbox.run_setup()`` API to invoke a setup
5334 script in a directory sandbox, and a new ``setuptools.archive_util`` module
5335 with an ``unpack_archive()`` API. These were split out of EasyInstall to
5336 allow reuse by other tools and applications.
5338 * ``setuptools.Command`` now supports reinitializing commands using keyword
5339 arguments to set/reset options. Also, ``Command`` subclasses can now set
5340 their ``command_consumes_arguments`` attribute to ``True`` in order to
5341 receive an ``args`` option containing the rest of the command line.
5343 * Added support for installing scripts
5345 * Added support for setting options via distutils configuration files, and
5346 using distutils' default options as a basis for EasyInstall's defaults.
5348 * Renamed ``--scan-url/-s`` to ``--find-links/-f`` to free up ``-s`` for the
5349 script installation directory option.
5351 * Use ``urllib2`` instead of ``urllib``, to allow use of ``https:`` URLs if
5352 Python includes SSL support.
5357 * Added ``--scan-url`` and ``--index-url`` options, to scan download pages
5358 and search PyPI for needed packages.
5363 * Restrict ``--build-directory=DIR/-b DIR`` option to only be used with single
5364 URL installs, to avoid running the wrong setup.py.
5369 * Added ``--build-directory=DIR/-b DIR`` option.
5371 * Added "installation report" that explains how to use 'require()' when doing
5372 a multiversion install or alternate installation directory.
5374 * Added SourceForge mirror auto-select (Contributed by Ian Bicking)
5376 * Added "sandboxing" that stops a setup script from running if it attempts to
5377 write to the filesystem outside of the build area
5379 * Added more workarounds for packages with quirky ``install_data`` hacks
5384 * Added new options to ``bdist_egg`` to allow tagging the egg's version number
5385 with a subversion revision number, the current date, or an explicit tag
5386 value. Run ``setup.py bdist_egg --help`` to get more information.
5388 * Added subversion download support for ``svn:`` and ``svn+`` URLs, as well as
5389 automatic recognition of HTTP subversion URLs (Contributed by Ian Bicking)
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