[Distutils] Python module for use in ‘setup.py’ but not to install

[Donald Stufft]

> On Jan 17, 2015, at 7:47 PM, Ben Finney <ben+python at benfinney.id.au> wrote:
> 
> Howdy all,
> 
> How can I specify to Distutils (Setuptools) that module ‘foo’ needs to
> be available for use by ‘setup.py’, but should not be installed with the
> binary distribution?
> 
> In the ‘python-daemon’ distribution, I have refactored a bunch of
> functionality to a separate top-level module (‘version’). That module is
> required to perform Setuptools actions – the ‘egg_info.writers’ entry
> point specifically – but is not needed at all by the resulting
> installation and should not be installed.
> 
> So it's not clear how to specify this dependency. I have a
> ‘packages=find_packages(exclude=["test"])’ specification; but that
> module isn't a package and so should not (?) be collected. I have the
> file included in ‘MANIFEST.in’; but that only specifies what to include
> in the source distribution, and should not add any files to the binary.
> 
> As it stands (‘python-daemon’ [0] version 2.0.3), the ‘version.py’ file
> is correctly included in the source distribution, correctly used by the
> ‘egg_info.writers’ entry point; but then ends up incorrectly installed
> to the run-time packages library. This causes problems for subsequent
> import of unrelated modules that happen to share the same name.
> 
> How can I specify to Setuptools that the file is needed in the source
> distribution, is needed by the entry points for Setuptools, but should
> not be installed along with the binary distribution?
> 
> 
> [0] <URL:https://pypi.python.org/pypi/python-daemon/>; version 2.0.3 at
>    <URL:https://pypi.python.org/pypi/python-daemon/2.0.3>.
> 
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setup_requires?

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