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+==================================================
+Building and Distributing Packages with Setuptools
+==================================================
+
+``Setuptools`` is a collection of enhancements to the Python ``distutils``
+that allow developers to more easily build and
+distribute Python packages, especially ones that have dependencies on other
+packages.
+
+Packages built and distributed using ``setuptools`` look to the user like
+ordinary Python packages based on the ``distutils``. Your users don't need to
+install or even know about setuptools in order to use them, and you don't
+have to include the entire setuptools package in your distributions. By
+including just a single `bootstrap module`_ (a 12K .py file), your package will
+automatically download and install ``setuptools`` if the user is building your
+package from source and doesn't have a suitable version already installed.
+
+.. _bootstrap module: https://bootstrap.pypa.io/ez_setup.py
+
+Feature Highlights:
+
+* Automatically find/download/install/upgrade dependencies at build time using
+ the `EasyInstall tool <easy_install.html>`_,
+ which supports downloading via HTTP, FTP, Subversion, and SourceForge, and
+ automatically scans web pages linked from PyPI to find download links. (It's
+ the closest thing to CPAN currently available for Python.)
+
+* Create `Python Eggs <http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/PythonEggs>`_ -
+ a single-file importable distribution format
+
+* Enhanced support for accessing data files hosted in zipped packages.
+
+* Automatically include all packages in your source tree, without listing them
+ individually in setup.py
+
+* Automatically include all relevant files in your source distributions,
+ without needing to create a ``MANIFEST.in`` file, and without having to force
+ regeneration of the ``MANIFEST`` file when your source tree changes.
+
+* Automatically generate wrapper scripts or Windows (console and GUI) .exe
+ files for any number of "main" functions in your project. (Note: this is not
+ a py2exe replacement; the .exe files rely on the local Python installation.)
+
+* Transparent Pyrex support, so that your setup.py can list ``.pyx`` files and
+ still work even when the end-user doesn't have Pyrex installed (as long as
+ you include the Pyrex-generated C in your source distribution)
+
+* Command aliases - create project-specific, per-user, or site-wide shortcut
+ names for commonly used commands and options
+
+* PyPI upload support - upload your source distributions and eggs to PyPI
+
+* Deploy your project in "development mode", such that it's available on
+ ``sys.path``, yet can still be edited directly from its source checkout.
+
+* Easily extend the distutils with new commands or ``setup()`` arguments, and
+ distribute/reuse your extensions for multiple projects, without copying code.
+
+* Create extensible applications and frameworks that automatically discover
+ extensions, using simple "entry points" declared in a project's setup script.
+
+.. contents:: **Table of Contents**
+
+.. _ez_setup.py: `bootstrap module`_
+
+
+-----------------
+Developer's Guide
+-----------------
+
+
+Installing ``setuptools``
+=========================
+
+Please follow the `EasyInstall Installation Instructions`_ to install the
+current stable version of setuptools. In particular, be sure to read the
+section on `Custom Installation Locations`_ if you are installing anywhere
+other than Python's ``site-packages`` directory.
+
+.. _EasyInstall Installation Instructions: easy_install.html#installation-instructions
+
+.. _Custom Installation Locations: easy_install.html#custom-installation-locations
+
+If you want the current in-development version of setuptools, you should first
+install a stable version, and then run::
+
+ ez_setup.py setuptools==dev
+
+This will download and install the latest development (i.e. unstable) version
+of setuptools from the Python Subversion sandbox.
+
+
+Basic Use
+=========
+
+For basic use of setuptools, just import things from setuptools instead of
+the distutils. Here's a minimal setup script using setuptools::
+
+ from setuptools import setup, find_packages
+ setup(
+ name="HelloWorld",
+ version="0.1",
+ packages=find_packages(),
+ )
+
+As you can see, it doesn't take much to use setuptools in a project.
+Run that script in your project folder, alongside the Python packages
+you have developed.
+
+Invoke that script to produce eggs, upload to
+PyPI, and automatically include all packages in the directory where the
+setup.py lives. See the `Command Reference`_ section below to see what
+commands you can give to this setup script. For example,
+to produce a source distribution, simply invoke::
+
+ python setup.py sdist
+
+Of course, before you release your project to PyPI, you'll want to add a bit
+more information to your setup script to help people find or learn about your
+project. And maybe your project will have grown by then to include a few
+dependencies, and perhaps some data files and scripts::
+
+ from setuptools import setup, find_packages
+ setup(
+ name="HelloWorld",
+ version="0.1",
+ packages=find_packages(),
+ scripts=['say_hello.py'],
+
+ # Project uses reStructuredText, so ensure that the docutils get
+ # installed or upgraded on the target machine
+ install_requires=['docutils>=0.3'],
+
+ package_data={
+ # If any package contains *.txt or *.rst files, include them:
+ '': ['*.txt', '*.rst'],
+ # And include any *.msg files found in the 'hello' package, too:
+ 'hello': ['*.msg'],
+ },
+
+ # metadata for upload to PyPI
+ author="Me",
+ author_email="me@example.com",
+ description="This is an Example Package",
+ license="PSF",
+ keywords="hello world example examples",
+ url="http://example.com/HelloWorld/", # project home page, if any
+ project_urls={
+ "Bug Tracker": "https://bugs.example.com/HelloWorld/",
+ "Documentation": "https://docs.example.com/HelloWorld/",
+ "Source Code": "https://code.example.com/HelloWorld/",
+ }
+
+ # could also include long_description, download_url, classifiers, etc.
+ )
+
+In the sections that follow, we'll explain what most of these ``setup()``
+arguments do (except for the metadata ones), and the various ways you might use
+them in your own project(s).
+
+
+Specifying Your Project's Version
+---------------------------------
+
+Setuptools can work well with most versioning schemes; there are, however, a
+few special things to watch out for, in order to ensure that setuptools and
+EasyInstall can always tell what version of your package is newer than another
+version. Knowing these things will also help you correctly specify what
+versions of other projects your project depends on.
+
+A version consists of an alternating series of release numbers and pre-release
+or post-release tags. A release number is a series of digits punctuated by
+dots, such as ``2.4`` or ``0.5``. Each series of digits is treated
+numerically, so releases ``2.1`` and ``2.1.0`` are different ways to spell the
+same release number, denoting the first subrelease of release 2. But ``2.10``
+is the *tenth* subrelease of release 2, and so is a different and newer release
+from ``2.1`` or ``2.1.0``. Leading zeros within a series of digits are also
+ignored, so ``2.01`` is the same as ``2.1``, and different from ``2.0.1``.
+
+Following a release number, you can have either a pre-release or post-release
+tag. Pre-release tags make a version be considered *older* than the version
+they are appended to. So, revision ``2.4`` is *newer* than revision ``2.4c1``,
+which in turn is newer than ``2.4b1`` or ``2.4a1``. Postrelease tags make
+a version be considered *newer* than the version they are appended to. So,
+revisions like ``2.4-1`` and ``2.4pl3`` are newer than ``2.4``, but are *older*
+than ``2.4.1`` (which has a higher release number).
+
+A pre-release tag is a series of letters that are alphabetically before
+"final". Some examples of prerelease tags would include ``alpha``, ``beta``,
+``a``, ``c``, ``dev``, and so on. You do not have to place a dot or dash
+before the prerelease tag if it's immediately after a number, but it's okay to
+do so if you prefer. Thus, ``2.4c1`` and ``2.4.c1`` and ``2.4-c1`` all
+represent release candidate 1 of version ``2.4``, and are treated as identical
+by setuptools.
+
+In addition, there are three special prerelease tags that are treated as if
+they were the letter ``c``: ``pre``, ``preview``, and ``rc``. So, version
+``2.4rc1``, ``2.4pre1`` and ``2.4preview1`` are all the exact same version as
+``2.4c1``, and are treated as identical by setuptools.
+
+A post-release tag is either a series of letters that are alphabetically
+greater than or equal to "final", or a dash (``-``). Post-release tags are
+generally used to separate patch numbers, port numbers, build numbers, revision
+numbers, or date stamps from the release number. For example, the version
+``2.4-r1263`` might denote Subversion revision 1263 of a post-release patch of
+version ``2.4``. Or you might use ``2.4-20051127`` to denote a date-stamped
+post-release.
+
+Notice that after each pre or post-release tag, you are free to place another
+release number, followed again by more pre- or post-release tags. For example,
+``0.6a9.dev-r41475`` could denote Subversion revision 41475 of the in-
+development version of the ninth alpha of release 0.6. Notice that ``dev`` is
+a pre-release tag, so this version is a *lower* version number than ``0.6a9``,
+which would be the actual ninth alpha of release 0.6. But the ``-r41475`` is
+a post-release tag, so this version is *newer* than ``0.6a9.dev``.
+
+For the most part, setuptools' interpretation of version numbers is intuitive,
+but here are a few tips that will keep you out of trouble in the corner cases:
+
+* Don't stick adjoining pre-release tags together without a dot or number
+ between them. Version ``1.9adev`` is the ``adev`` prerelease of ``1.9``,
+ *not* a development pre-release of ``1.9a``. Use ``.dev`` instead, as in
+ ``1.9a.dev``, or separate the prerelease tags with a number, as in
+ ``1.9a0dev``. ``1.9a.dev``, ``1.9a0dev``, and even ``1.9.a.dev`` are
+ identical versions from setuptools' point of view, so you can use whatever
+ scheme you prefer.
+
+* If you want to be certain that your chosen numbering scheme works the way
+ you think it will, you can use the ``pkg_resources.parse_version()`` function
+ to compare different version numbers::
+
+ >>> from pkg_resources import parse_version
+ >>> parse_version('1.9.a.dev') == parse_version('1.9a0dev')
+ True
+ >>> parse_version('2.1-rc2') < parse_version('2.1')
+ True
+ >>> parse_version('0.6a9dev-r41475') < parse_version('0.6a9')
+ True
+
+Once you've decided on a version numbering scheme for your project, you can
+have setuptools automatically tag your in-development releases with various
+pre- or post-release tags. See the following sections for more details:
+
+* `Tagging and "Daily Build" or "Snapshot" Releases`_
+* `Managing "Continuous Releases" Using Subversion`_
+* The `egg_info`_ command
+
+
+New and Changed ``setup()`` Keywords
+====================================
+
+The following keyword arguments to ``setup()`` are added or changed by
+``setuptools``. All of them are optional; you do not have to supply them
+unless you need the associated ``setuptools`` feature.
+
+``include_package_data``
+ If set to ``True``, this tells ``setuptools`` to automatically include any
+ data files it finds inside your package directories that are specified by
+ your ``MANIFEST.in`` file. For more information, see the section below on
+ `Including Data Files`_.
+
+``exclude_package_data``
+ A dictionary mapping package names to lists of glob patterns that should
+ be *excluded* from your package directories. You can use this to trim back
+ any excess files included by ``include_package_data``. For a complete
+ description and examples, see the section below on `Including Data Files`_.
+
+``package_data``
+ A dictionary mapping package names to lists of glob patterns. For a
+ complete description and examples, see the section below on `Including
+ Data Files`_. You do not need to use this option if you are using
+ ``include_package_data``, unless you need to add e.g. files that are
+ generated by your setup script and build process. (And are therefore not
+ in source control or are files that you don't want to include in your
+ source distribution.)
+
+``zip_safe``
+ A boolean (True or False) flag specifying whether the project can be
+ safely installed and run from a zip file. If this argument is not
+ supplied, the ``bdist_egg`` command will have to analyze all of your
+ project's contents for possible problems each time it builds an egg.
+
+``install_requires``
+ A string or list of strings specifying what other distributions need to
+ be installed when this one is. See the section below on `Declaring
+ Dependencies`_ for details and examples of the format of this argument.
+
+``entry_points``
+ A dictionary mapping entry point group names to strings or lists of strings
+ defining the entry points. Entry points are used to support dynamic
+ discovery of services or plugins provided by a project. See `Dynamic
+ Discovery of Services and Plugins`_ for details and examples of the format
+ of this argument. In addition, this keyword is used to support `Automatic
+ Script Creation`_.
+
+``extras_require``
+ A dictionary mapping names of "extras" (optional features of your project)
+ to strings or lists of strings specifying what other distributions must be
+ installed to support those features. See the section below on `Declaring
+ Dependencies`_ for details and examples of the format of this argument.
+
+``python_requires``
+ A string corresponding to a version specifier (as defined in PEP 440) for
+ the Python version, used to specify the Requires-Python defined in PEP 345.
+
+``setup_requires``
+ A string or list of strings specifying what other distributions need to
+ be present in order for the *setup script* to run. ``setuptools`` will
+ attempt to obtain these (even going so far as to download them using
+ ``EasyInstall``) before processing the rest of the setup script or commands.
+ This argument is needed if you are using distutils extensions as part of
+ your build process; for example, extensions that process setup() arguments
+ and turn them into EGG-INFO metadata files.
+
+ (Note: projects listed in ``setup_requires`` will NOT be automatically
+ installed on the system where the setup script is being run. They are
+ simply downloaded to the ./.eggs directory if they're not locally available
+ already. If you want them to be installed, as well as being available
+ when the setup script is run, you should add them to ``install_requires``
+ **and** ``setup_requires``.)
+
+``dependency_links``
+ A list of strings naming URLs to be searched when satisfying dependencies.
+ These links will be used if needed to install packages specified by
+ ``setup_requires`` or ``tests_require``. They will also be written into
+ the egg's metadata for use by tools like EasyInstall to use when installing
+ an ``.egg`` file.
+
+``namespace_packages``
+ A list of strings naming the project's "namespace packages". A namespace
+ package is a package that may be split across multiple project
+ distributions. For example, Zope 3's ``zope`` package is a namespace
+ package, because subpackages like ``zope.interface`` and ``zope.publisher``
+ may be distributed separately. The egg runtime system can automatically
+ merge such subpackages into a single parent package at runtime, as long
+ as you declare them in each project that contains any subpackages of the
+ namespace package, and as long as the namespace package's ``__init__.py``
+ does not contain any code other than a namespace declaration. See the
+ section below on `Namespace Packages`_ for more information.
+
+``test_suite``
+ A string naming a ``unittest.TestCase`` subclass (or a package or module
+ containing one or more of them, or a method of such a subclass), or naming
+ a function that can be called with no arguments and returns a
+ ``unittest.TestSuite``. If the named suite is a module, and the module
+ has an ``additional_tests()`` function, it is called and the results are
+ added to the tests to be run. If the named suite is a package, any
+ submodules and subpackages are recursively added to the overall test suite.
+
+ Specifying this argument enables use of the `test`_ command to run the
+ specified test suite, e.g. via ``setup.py test``. See the section on the
+ `test`_ command below for more details.
+
+``tests_require``
+ If your project's tests need one or more additional packages besides those
+ needed to install it, you can use this option to specify them. It should
+ be a string or list of strings specifying what other distributions need to
+ be present for the package's tests to run. When you run the ``test``
+ command, ``setuptools`` will attempt to obtain these (even going
+ so far as to download them using ``EasyInstall``). Note that these
+ required projects will *not* be installed on the system where the tests
+ are run, but only downloaded to the project's setup directory if they're
+ not already installed locally.
+
+.. _test_loader:
+
+``test_loader``
+ If you would like to use a different way of finding tests to run than what
+ setuptools normally uses, you can specify a module name and class name in
+ this argument. The named class must be instantiable with no arguments, and
+ its instances must support the ``loadTestsFromNames()`` method as defined
+ in the Python ``unittest`` module's ``TestLoader`` class. Setuptools will
+ pass only one test "name" in the `names` argument: the value supplied for
+ the ``test_suite`` argument. The loader you specify may interpret this
+ string in any way it likes, as there are no restrictions on what may be
+ contained in a ``test_suite`` string.
+
+ The module name and class name must be separated by a ``:``. The default
+ value of this argument is ``"setuptools.command.test:ScanningLoader"``. If
+ you want to use the default ``unittest`` behavior, you can specify
+ ``"unittest:TestLoader"`` as your ``test_loader`` argument instead. This
+ will prevent automatic scanning of submodules and subpackages.
+
+ The module and class you specify here may be contained in another package,
+ as long as you use the ``tests_require`` option to ensure that the package
+ containing the loader class is available when the ``test`` command is run.
+
+``eager_resources``
+ A list of strings naming resources that should be extracted together, if
+ any of them is needed, or if any C extensions included in the project are
+ imported. This argument is only useful if the project will be installed as
+ a zipfile, and there is a need to have all of the listed resources be
+ extracted to the filesystem *as a unit*. Resources listed here
+ should be '/'-separated paths, relative to the source root, so to list a
+ resource ``foo.png`` in package ``bar.baz``, you would include the string
+ ``bar/baz/foo.png`` in this argument.
+
+ If you only need to obtain resources one at a time, or you don't have any C
+ extensions that access other files in the project (such as data files or
+ shared libraries), you probably do NOT need this argument and shouldn't
+ mess with it. For more details on how this argument works, see the section
+ below on `Automatic Resource Extraction`_.
+
+``use_2to3``
+ Convert the source code from Python 2 to Python 3 with 2to3 during the
+ build process. See :doc:`python3` for more details.
+
+``convert_2to3_doctests``
+ List of doctest source files that need to be converted with 2to3.
+ See :doc:`python3` for more details.
+
+``use_2to3_fixers``
+ A list of modules to search for additional fixers to be used during
+ the 2to3 conversion. See :doc:`python3` for more details.
+
+``project_urls``
+ An arbitrary map of URL names to hyperlinks, allowing more extensible
+ documentation of where various resources can be found than the simple
+ ``url`` and ``download_url`` options provide.
+
+
+Using ``find_packages()``
+-------------------------
+
+For simple projects, it's usually easy enough to manually add packages to
+the ``packages`` argument of ``setup()``. However, for very large projects
+(Twisted, PEAK, Zope, Chandler, etc.), it can be a big burden to keep the
+package list updated. That's what ``setuptools.find_packages()`` is for.
+
+``find_packages()`` takes a source directory and two lists of package name
+patterns to exclude and include. If omitted, the source directory defaults to
+the same
+directory as the setup script. Some projects use a ``src`` or ``lib``
+directory as the root of their source tree, and those projects would of course
+use ``"src"`` or ``"lib"`` as the first argument to ``find_packages()``. (And
+such projects also need something like ``package_dir={'':'src'}`` in their
+``setup()`` arguments, but that's just a normal distutils thing.)
+
+Anyway, ``find_packages()`` walks the target directory, filtering by inclusion
+patterns, and finds Python packages (any directory). Packages are only
+recognized if they include an ``__init__.py`` file. Finally, exclusion
+patterns are applied to remove matching packages.
+
+Inclusion and exclusion patterns are package names, optionally including
+wildcards. For
+example, ``find_packages(exclude=["*.tests"])`` will exclude all packages whose
+last name part is ``tests``. Or, ``find_packages(exclude=["*.tests",
+"*.tests.*"])`` will also exclude any subpackages of packages named ``tests``,
+but it still won't exclude a top-level ``tests`` package or the children
+thereof. In fact, if you really want no ``tests`` packages at all, you'll need
+something like this::
+
+ find_packages(exclude=["*.tests", "*.tests.*", "tests.*", "tests"])
+
+in order to cover all the bases. Really, the exclusion patterns are intended
+to cover simpler use cases than this, like excluding a single, specified
+package and its subpackages.
+
+Regardless of the parameters, the ``find_packages()``
+function returns a list of package names suitable for use as the ``packages``
+argument to ``setup()``, and so is usually the easiest way to set that
+argument in your setup script. Especially since it frees you from having to
+remember to modify your setup script whenever your project grows additional
+top-level packages or subpackages.
+
+
+Automatic Script Creation
+=========================
+
+Packaging and installing scripts can be a bit awkward with the distutils. For
+one thing, there's no easy way to have a script's filename match local
+conventions on both Windows and POSIX platforms. For another, you often have
+to create a separate file just for the "main" script, when your actual "main"
+is a function in a module somewhere. And even in Python 2.4, using the ``-m``
+option only works for actual ``.py`` files that aren't installed in a package.
+
+``setuptools`` fixes all of these problems by automatically generating scripts
+for you with the correct extension, and on Windows it will even create an
+``.exe`` file so that users don't have to change their ``PATHEXT`` settings.
+The way to use this feature is to define "entry points" in your setup script
+that indicate what function the generated script should import and run. For
+example, to create two console scripts called ``foo`` and ``bar``, and a GUI
+script called ``baz``, you might do something like this::
+
+ setup(
+ # other arguments here...
+ entry_points={
+ 'console_scripts': [
+ 'foo = my_package.some_module:main_func',
+ 'bar = other_module:some_func',
+ ],
+ 'gui_scripts': [
+ 'baz = my_package_gui:start_func',
+ ]
+ }
+ )
+
+When this project is installed on non-Windows platforms (using "setup.py
+install", "setup.py develop", or by using EasyInstall), a set of ``foo``,
+``bar``, and ``baz`` scripts will be installed that import ``main_func`` and
+``some_func`` from the specified modules. The functions you specify are called
+with no arguments, and their return value is passed to ``sys.exit()``, so you
+can return an errorlevel or message to print to stderr.
+
+On Windows, a set of ``foo.exe``, ``bar.exe``, and ``baz.exe`` launchers are
+created, alongside a set of ``foo.py``, ``bar.py``, and ``baz.pyw`` files. The
+``.exe`` wrappers find and execute the right version of Python to run the
+``.py`` or ``.pyw`` file.
+
+You may define as many "console script" and "gui script" entry points as you
+like, and each one can optionally specify "extras" that it depends on, that
+will be added to ``sys.path`` when the script is run. For more information on
+"extras", see the section below on `Declaring Extras`_. For more information
+on "entry points" in general, see the section below on `Dynamic Discovery of
+Services and Plugins`_.
+
+
+"Eggsecutable" Scripts
+----------------------
+
+Occasionally, there are situations where it's desirable to make an ``.egg``
+file directly executable. You can do this by including an entry point such
+as the following::
+
+ setup(
+ # other arguments here...
+ entry_points={
+ 'setuptools.installation': [
+ 'eggsecutable = my_package.some_module:main_func',
+ ]
+ }
+ )
+
+Any eggs built from the above setup script will include a short executable
+prelude that imports and calls ``main_func()`` from ``my_package.some_module``.
+The prelude can be run on Unix-like platforms (including Mac and Linux) by
+invoking the egg with ``/bin/sh``, or by enabling execute permissions on the
+``.egg`` file. For the executable prelude to run, the appropriate version of
+Python must be available via the ``PATH`` environment variable, under its
+"long" name. That is, if the egg is built for Python 2.3, there must be a
+``python2.3`` executable present in a directory on ``PATH``.
+
+This feature is primarily intended to support ez_setup the installation of
+setuptools itself on non-Windows platforms, but may also be useful for other
+projects as well.
+
+IMPORTANT NOTE: Eggs with an "eggsecutable" header cannot be renamed, or
+invoked via symlinks. They *must* be invoked using their original filename, in
+order to ensure that, once running, ``pkg_resources`` will know what project
+and version is in use. The header script will check this and exit with an
+error if the ``.egg`` file has been renamed or is invoked via a symlink that
+changes its base name.
+
+
+Declaring Dependencies
+======================
+
+``setuptools`` supports automatically installing dependencies when a package is
+installed, and including information about dependencies in Python Eggs (so that
+package management tools like EasyInstall can use the information).
+
+``setuptools`` and ``pkg_resources`` use a common syntax for specifying a
+project's required dependencies. This syntax consists of a project's PyPI
+name, optionally followed by a comma-separated list of "extras" in square
+brackets, optionally followed by a comma-separated list of version
+specifiers. A version specifier is one of the operators ``<``, ``>``, ``<=``,
+``>=``, ``==`` or ``!=``, followed by a version identifier. Tokens may be
+separated by whitespace, but any whitespace or nonstandard characters within a
+project name or version identifier must be replaced with ``-``.
+
+Version specifiers for a given project are internally sorted into ascending
+version order, and used to establish what ranges of versions are acceptable.
+Adjacent redundant conditions are also consolidated (e.g. ``">1, >2"`` becomes
+``">2"``, and ``"<2,<3"`` becomes ``"<2"``). ``"!="`` versions are excised from
+the ranges they fall within. A project's version is then checked for
+membership in the resulting ranges. (Note that providing conflicting conditions
+for the same version (e.g. "<2,>=2" or "==2,!=2") is meaningless and may
+therefore produce bizarre results.)
+
+Here are some example requirement specifiers::
+
+ docutils >= 0.3
+
+ # comment lines and \ continuations are allowed in requirement strings
+ BazSpam ==1.1, ==1.2, ==1.3, ==1.4, ==1.5, \
+ ==1.6, ==1.7 # and so are line-end comments
+
+ PEAK[FastCGI, reST]>=0.5a4
+
+ setuptools==0.5a7
+
+The simplest way to include requirement specifiers is to use the
+``install_requires`` argument to ``setup()``. It takes a string or list of
+strings containing requirement specifiers. If you include more than one
+requirement in a string, each requirement must begin on a new line.
+
+This has three effects:
+
+1. When your project is installed, either by using EasyInstall, ``setup.py
+ install``, or ``setup.py develop``, all of the dependencies not already
+ installed will be located (via PyPI), downloaded, built (if necessary),
+ and installed.
+
+2. Any scripts in your project will be installed with wrappers that verify
+ the availability of the specified dependencies at runtime, and ensure that
+ the correct versions are added to ``sys.path`` (e.g. if multiple versions
+ have been installed).
+
+3. Python Egg distributions will include a metadata file listing the
+ dependencies.
+
+Note, by the way, that if you declare your dependencies in ``setup.py``, you do
+*not* need to use the ``require()`` function in your scripts or modules, as
+long as you either install the project or use ``setup.py develop`` to do
+development work on it. (See `"Development Mode"`_ below for more details on
+using ``setup.py develop``.)
+
+
+Dependencies that aren't in PyPI
+--------------------------------
+
+If your project depends on packages that aren't registered in PyPI, you may
+still be able to depend on them, as long as they are available for download
+as:
+
+- an egg, in the standard distutils ``sdist`` format,
+- a single ``.py`` file, or
+- a VCS repository (Subversion, Mercurial, or Git).
+
+You just need to add some URLs to the ``dependency_links`` argument to
+``setup()``.
+
+The URLs must be either:
+
+1. direct download URLs,
+2. the URLs of web pages that contain direct download links, or
+3. the repository's URL
+
+In general, it's better to link to web pages, because it is usually less
+complex to update a web page than to release a new version of your project.
+You can also use a SourceForge ``showfiles.php`` link in the case where a
+package you depend on is distributed via SourceForge.
+
+If you depend on a package that's distributed as a single ``.py`` file, you
+must include an ``"#egg=project-version"`` suffix to the URL, to give a project
+name and version number. (Be sure to escape any dashes in the name or version
+by replacing them with underscores.) EasyInstall will recognize this suffix
+and automatically create a trivial ``setup.py`` to wrap the single ``.py`` file
+as an egg.
+
+In the case of a VCS checkout, you should also append ``#egg=project-version``
+in order to identify for what package that checkout should be used. You can
+append ``@REV`` to the URL's path (before the fragment) to specify a revision.
+Additionally, you can also force the VCS being used by prepending the URL with
+a certain prefix. Currently available are:
+
+- ``svn+URL`` for Subversion,
+- ``git+URL`` for Git, and
+- ``hg+URL`` for Mercurial
+
+A more complete example would be:
+
+ ``vcs+proto://host/path@revision#egg=project-version``
+
+Be careful with the version. It should match the one inside the project files.
+If you want to disregard the version, you have to omit it both in the
+``requires`` and in the URL's fragment.
+
+This will do a checkout (or a clone, in Git and Mercurial parlance) to a
+temporary folder and run ``setup.py bdist_egg``.
+
+The ``dependency_links`` option takes the form of a list of URL strings. For
+example, the below will cause EasyInstall to search the specified page for
+eggs or source distributions, if the package's dependencies aren't already
+installed::
+
+ setup(
+ ...
+ dependency_links=[
+ "http://peak.telecommunity.com/snapshots/"
+ ],
+ )
+
+
+.. _Declaring Extras:
+
+
+Declaring "Extras" (optional features with their own dependencies)
+------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+Sometimes a project has "recommended" dependencies, that are not required for
+all uses of the project. For example, a project might offer optional PDF
+output if ReportLab is installed, and reStructuredText support if docutils is
+installed. These optional features are called "extras", and setuptools allows
+you to define their requirements as well. In this way, other projects that
+require these optional features can force the additional requirements to be
+installed, by naming the desired extras in their ``install_requires``.
+
+For example, let's say that Project A offers optional PDF and reST support::
+
+ setup(
+ name="Project-A",
+ ...
+ extras_require={
+ 'PDF': ["ReportLab>=1.2", "RXP"],
+ 'reST': ["docutils>=0.3"],
+ }
+ )
+
+As you can see, the ``extras_require`` argument takes a dictionary mapping
+names of "extra" features, to strings or lists of strings describing those
+features' requirements. These requirements will *not* be automatically
+installed unless another package depends on them (directly or indirectly) by
+including the desired "extras" in square brackets after the associated project
+name. (Or if the extras were listed in a requirement spec on the EasyInstall
+command line.)
+
+Extras can be used by a project's `entry points`_ to specify dynamic
+dependencies. For example, if Project A includes a "rst2pdf" script, it might
+declare it like this, so that the "PDF" requirements are only resolved if the
+"rst2pdf" script is run::
+
+ setup(
+ name="Project-A",
+ ...
+ entry_points={
+ 'console_scripts': [
+ 'rst2pdf = project_a.tools.pdfgen [PDF]',
+ 'rst2html = project_a.tools.htmlgen',
+ # more script entry points ...
+ ],
+ }
+ )
+
+Projects can also use another project's extras when specifying dependencies.
+For example, if project B needs "project A" with PDF support installed, it
+might declare the dependency like this::
+
+ setup(
+ name="Project-B",
+ install_requires=["Project-A[PDF]"],
+ ...
+ )
+
+This will cause ReportLab to be installed along with project A, if project B is
+installed -- even if project A was already installed. In this way, a project
+can encapsulate groups of optional "downstream dependencies" under a feature
+name, so that packages that depend on it don't have to know what the downstream
+dependencies are. If a later version of Project A builds in PDF support and
+no longer needs ReportLab, or if it ends up needing other dependencies besides
+ReportLab in order to provide PDF support, Project B's setup information does
+not need to change, but the right packages will still be installed if needed.
+
+Note, by the way, that if a project ends up not needing any other packages to
+support a feature, it should keep an empty requirements list for that feature
+in its ``extras_require`` argument, so that packages depending on that feature
+don't break (due to an invalid feature name). For example, if Project A above
+builds in PDF support and no longer needs ReportLab, it could change its
+setup to this::
+
+ setup(
+ name="Project-A",
+ ...
+ extras_require={
+ 'PDF': [],
+ 'reST': ["docutils>=0.3"],
+ }
+ )
+
+so that Package B doesn't have to remove the ``[PDF]`` from its requirement
+specifier.
+
+
+.. _Platform Specific Dependencies:
+
+
+Declaring platform specific dependencies
+----------------------------------------
+
+Sometimes a project might require a dependency to run on a specific platform.
+This could to a package that back ports a module so that it can be used in
+older python versions. Or it could be a package that is required to run on a
+specific operating system. This will allow a project to work on multiple
+different platforms without installing dependencies that are not required for
+a platform that is installing the project.
+
+For example, here is a project that uses the ``enum`` module and ``pywin32``::
+
+ setup(
+ name="Project",
+ ...
+ install_requires=[
+ 'enum34;python_version<"3.4"',
+ 'pywin32 >= 1.0;platform_system=="Windows"'
+ ]
+ )
+
+Since the ``enum`` module was added in Python 3.4, it should only be installed
+if the python version is earlier. Since ``pywin32`` will only be used on
+windows, it should only be installed when the operating system is Windows.
+Specifying version requirements for the dependencies is supported as normal.
+
+The environmental markers that may be used for testing platform types are
+detailed in `PEP 508`_.
+
+.. _PEP 508: https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0508/
+
+Including Data Files
+====================
+
+The distutils have traditionally allowed installation of "data files", which
+are placed in a platform-specific location. However, the most common use case
+for data files distributed with a package is for use *by* the package, usually
+by including the data files in the package directory.
+
+Setuptools offers three ways to specify data files to be included in your
+packages. First, you can simply use the ``include_package_data`` keyword,
+e.g.::
+
+ from setuptools import setup, find_packages
+ setup(
+ ...
+ include_package_data=True
+ )
+
+This tells setuptools to install any data files it finds in your packages.
+The data files must be specified via the distutils' ``MANIFEST.in`` file.
+(They can also be tracked by a revision control system, using an appropriate
+plugin. See the section below on `Adding Support for Revision Control
+Systems`_ for information on how to write such plugins.)
+
+If you want finer-grained control over what files are included (for example,
+if you have documentation files in your package directories and want to exclude
+them from installation), then you can also use the ``package_data`` keyword,
+e.g.::
+
+ from setuptools import setup, find_packages
+ setup(
+ ...
+ package_data={
+ # If any package contains *.txt or *.rst files, include them:
+ '': ['*.txt', '*.rst'],
+ # And include any *.msg files found in the 'hello' package, too:
+ 'hello': ['*.msg'],
+ }
+ )
+
+The ``package_data`` argument is a dictionary that maps from package names to
+lists of glob patterns. The globs may include subdirectory names, if the data
+files are contained in a subdirectory of the package. For example, if the
+package tree looks like this::
+
+ setup.py
+ src/
+ mypkg/
+ __init__.py
+ mypkg.txt
+ data/
+ somefile.dat
+ otherdata.dat
+
+The setuptools setup file might look like this::
+
+ from setuptools import setup, find_packages
+ setup(
+ ...
+ packages=find_packages('src'), # include all packages under src
+ package_dir={'':'src'}, # tell distutils packages are under src
+
+ package_data={
+ # If any package contains *.txt files, include them:
+ '': ['*.txt'],
+ # And include any *.dat files found in the 'data' subdirectory
+ # of the 'mypkg' package, also:
+ 'mypkg': ['data/*.dat'],
+ }
+ )
+
+Notice that if you list patterns in ``package_data`` under the empty string,
+these patterns are used to find files in every package, even ones that also
+have their own patterns listed. Thus, in the above example, the ``mypkg.txt``
+file gets included even though it's not listed in the patterns for ``mypkg``.
+
+Also notice that if you use paths, you *must* use a forward slash (``/``) as
+the path separator, even if you are on Windows. Setuptools automatically
+converts slashes to appropriate platform-specific separators at build time.
+
+If datafiles are contained in a subdirectory of a package that isn't a package
+itself (no ``__init__.py``), then the subdirectory names (or ``*``) are required
+in the ``package_data`` argument (as shown above with ``'data/*.dat'``).
+
+When building an ``sdist``, the datafiles are also drawn from the
+``package_name.egg-info/SOURCES.txt`` file, so make sure that this is removed if
+the ``setup.py`` ``package_data`` list is updated before calling ``setup.py``.
+
+(Note: although the ``package_data`` argument was previously only available in
+``setuptools``, it was also added to the Python ``distutils`` package as of
+Python 2.4; there is `some documentation for the feature`__ available on the
+python.org website. If using the setuptools-specific ``include_package_data``
+argument, files specified by ``package_data`` will *not* be automatically
+added to the manifest unless they are listed in the MANIFEST.in file.)
+
+__ http://docs.python.org/dist/node11.html
+
+Sometimes, the ``include_package_data`` or ``package_data`` options alone
+aren't sufficient to precisely define what files you want included. For
+example, you may want to include package README files in your revision control
+system and source distributions, but exclude them from being installed. So,
+setuptools offers an ``exclude_package_data`` option as well, that allows you
+to do things like this::
+
+ from setuptools import setup, find_packages
+ setup(
+ ...
+ packages=find_packages('src'), # include all packages under src
+ package_dir={'':'src'}, # tell distutils packages are under src
+
+ include_package_data=True, # include everything in source control
+
+ # ...but exclude README.txt from all packages
+ exclude_package_data={'': ['README.txt']},
+ )
+
+The ``exclude_package_data`` option is a dictionary mapping package names to
+lists of wildcard patterns, just like the ``package_data`` option. And, just
+as with that option, a key of ``''`` will apply the given pattern(s) to all
+packages. However, any files that match these patterns will be *excluded*
+from installation, even if they were listed in ``package_data`` or were
+included as a result of using ``include_package_data``.
+
+In summary, the three options allow you to:
+
+``include_package_data``
+ Accept all data files and directories matched by ``MANIFEST.in``.
+
+``package_data``
+ Specify additional patterns to match files that may or may
+ not be matched by ``MANIFEST.in`` or found in source control.
+
+``exclude_package_data``
+ Specify patterns for data files and directories that should *not* be
+ included when a package is installed, even if they would otherwise have
+ been included due to the use of the preceding options.
+
+NOTE: Due to the way the distutils build process works, a data file that you
+include in your project and then stop including may be "orphaned" in your
+project's build directories, requiring you to run ``setup.py clean --all`` to
+fully remove them. This may also be important for your users and contributors
+if they track intermediate revisions of your project using Subversion; be sure
+to let them know when you make changes that remove files from inclusion so they
+can run ``setup.py clean --all``.
+
+
+Accessing Data Files at Runtime
+-------------------------------
+
+Typically, existing programs manipulate a package's ``__file__`` attribute in
+order to find the location of data files. However, this manipulation isn't
+compatible with PEP 302-based import hooks, including importing from zip files
+and Python Eggs. It is strongly recommended that, if you are using data files,
+you should use the :ref:`ResourceManager API` of ``pkg_resources`` to access
+them. The ``pkg_resources`` module is distributed as part of setuptools, so if
+you're using setuptools to distribute your package, there is no reason not to
+use its resource management API. See also `Accessing Package Resources`_ for
+a quick example of converting code that uses ``__file__`` to use
+``pkg_resources`` instead.
+
+.. _Accessing Package Resources: http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/PythonEggs#accessing-package-resources
+
+
+Non-Package Data Files
+----------------------
+
+The ``distutils`` normally install general "data files" to a platform-specific
+location (e.g. ``/usr/share``). This feature intended to be used for things
+like documentation, example configuration files, and the like. ``setuptools``
+does not install these data files in a separate location, however. They are
+bundled inside the egg file or directory, alongside the Python modules and
+packages. The data files can also be accessed using the :ref:`ResourceManager
+API`, by specifying a ``Requirement`` instead of a package name::
+
+ from pkg_resources import Requirement, resource_filename
+ filename = resource_filename(Requirement.parse("MyProject"),"sample.conf")
+
+The above code will obtain the filename of the "sample.conf" file in the data
+root of the "MyProject" distribution.
+
+Note, by the way, that this encapsulation of data files means that you can't
+actually install data files to some arbitrary location on a user's machine;
+this is a feature, not a bug. You can always include a script in your
+distribution that extracts and copies your the documentation or data files to
+a user-specified location, at their discretion. If you put related data files
+in a single directory, you can use ``resource_filename()`` with the directory
+name to get a filesystem directory that then can be copied with the ``shutil``
+module. (Even if your package is installed as a zipfile, calling
+``resource_filename()`` on a directory will return an actual filesystem
+directory, whose contents will be that entire subtree of your distribution.)
+
+(Of course, if you're writing a new package, you can just as easily place your
+data files or directories inside one of your packages, rather than using the
+distutils' approach. However, if you're updating an existing application, it
+may be simpler not to change the way it currently specifies these data files.)
+
+
+Automatic Resource Extraction
+-----------------------------
+
+If you are using tools that expect your resources to be "real" files, or your
+project includes non-extension native libraries or other files that your C
+extensions expect to be able to access, you may need to list those files in
+the ``eager_resources`` argument to ``setup()``, so that the files will be
+extracted together, whenever a C extension in the project is imported.
+
+This is especially important if your project includes shared libraries *other*
+than distutils-built C extensions, and those shared libraries use file
+extensions other than ``.dll``, ``.so``, or ``.dylib``, which are the
+extensions that setuptools 0.6a8 and higher automatically detects as shared
+libraries and adds to the ``native_libs.txt`` file for you. Any shared
+libraries whose names do not end with one of those extensions should be listed
+as ``eager_resources``, because they need to be present in the filesystem when
+he C extensions that link to them are used.
+
+The ``pkg_resources`` runtime for compressed packages will automatically
+extract *all* C extensions and ``eager_resources`` at the same time, whenever
+*any* C extension or eager resource is requested via the ``resource_filename()``
+API. (C extensions are imported using ``resource_filename()`` internally.)
+This ensures that C extensions will see all of the "real" files that they
+expect to see.
+
+Note also that you can list directory resource names in ``eager_resources`` as
+well, in which case the directory's contents (including subdirectories) will be
+extracted whenever any C extension or eager resource is requested.
+
+Please note that if you're not sure whether you need to use this argument, you
+don't! It's really intended to support projects with lots of non-Python
+dependencies and as a last resort for crufty projects that can't otherwise
+handle being compressed. If your package is pure Python, Python plus data
+files, or Python plus C, you really don't need this. You've got to be using
+either C or an external program that needs "real" files in your project before
+there's any possibility of ``eager_resources`` being relevant to your project.
+
+
+Extensible Applications and Frameworks
+======================================
+
+
+.. _Entry Points:
+
+Dynamic Discovery of Services and Plugins
+-----------------------------------------
+
+``setuptools`` supports creating libraries that "plug in" to extensible
+applications and frameworks, by letting you register "entry points" in your
+project that can be imported by the application or framework.
+
+For example, suppose that a blogging tool wants to support plugins
+that provide translation for various file types to the blog's output format.
+The framework might define an "entry point group" called ``blogtool.parsers``,
+and then allow plugins to register entry points for the file extensions they
+support.
+
+This would allow people to create distributions that contain one or more
+parsers for different file types, and then the blogging tool would be able to
+find the parsers at runtime by looking up an entry point for the file
+extension (or mime type, or however it wants to).
+
+Note that if the blogging tool includes parsers for certain file formats, it
+can register these as entry points in its own setup script, which means it
+doesn't have to special-case its built-in formats. They can just be treated
+the same as any other plugin's entry points would be.
+
+If you're creating a project that plugs in to an existing application or
+framework, you'll need to know what entry points or entry point groups are
+defined by that application or framework. Then, you can register entry points
+in your setup script. Here are a few examples of ways you might register an
+``.rst`` file parser entry point in the ``blogtool.parsers`` entry point group,
+for our hypothetical blogging tool::
+
+ setup(
+ # ...
+ entry_points={'blogtool.parsers': '.rst = some_module:SomeClass'}
+ )
+
+ setup(
+ # ...
+ entry_points={'blogtool.parsers': ['.rst = some_module:a_func']}
+ )
+
+ setup(
+ # ...
+ entry_points="""
+ [blogtool.parsers]
+ .rst = some.nested.module:SomeClass.some_classmethod [reST]
+ """,
+ extras_require=dict(reST="Docutils>=0.3.5")
+ )
+
+The ``entry_points`` argument to ``setup()`` accepts either a string with
+``.ini``-style sections, or a dictionary mapping entry point group names to
+either strings or lists of strings containing entry point specifiers. An
+entry point specifier consists of a name and value, separated by an ``=``
+sign. The value consists of a dotted module name, optionally followed by a
+``:`` and a dotted identifier naming an object within the module. It can
+also include a bracketed list of "extras" that are required for the entry
+point to be used. When the invoking application or framework requests loading
+of an entry point, any requirements implied by the associated extras will be
+passed to ``pkg_resources.require()``, so that an appropriate error message
+can be displayed if the needed package(s) are missing. (Of course, the
+invoking app or framework can ignore such errors if it wants to make an entry
+point optional if a requirement isn't installed.)
+
+
+Defining Additional Metadata
+----------------------------
+
+Some extensible applications and frameworks may need to define their own kinds
+of metadata to include in eggs, which they can then access using the
+``pkg_resources`` metadata APIs. Ordinarily, this is done by having plugin
+developers include additional files in their ``ProjectName.egg-info``
+directory. However, since it can be tedious to create such files by hand, you
+may want to create a distutils extension that will create the necessary files
+from arguments to ``setup()``, in much the same way that ``setuptools`` does
+for many of the ``setup()`` arguments it adds. See the section below on
+`Creating distutils Extensions`_ for more details, especially the subsection on
+`Adding new EGG-INFO Files`_.
+
+
+"Development Mode"
+==================
+
+Under normal circumstances, the ``distutils`` assume that you are going to
+build a distribution of your project, not use it in its "raw" or "unbuilt"
+form. If you were to use the ``distutils`` that way, you would have to rebuild
+and reinstall your project every time you made a change to it during
+development.
+
+Another problem that sometimes comes up with the ``distutils`` is that you may
+need to do development on two related projects at the same time. You may need
+to put both projects' packages in the same directory to run them, but need to
+keep them separate for revision control purposes. How can you do this?
+
+Setuptools allows you to deploy your projects for use in a common directory or
+staging area, but without copying any files. Thus, you can edit each project's
+code in its checkout directory, and only need to run build commands when you
+change a project's C extensions or similarly compiled files. You can even
+deploy a project into another project's checkout directory, if that's your
+preferred way of working (as opposed to using a common independent staging area
+or the site-packages directory).
+
+To do this, use the ``setup.py develop`` command. It works very similarly to
+``setup.py install`` or the EasyInstall tool, except that it doesn't actually
+install anything. Instead, it creates a special ``.egg-link`` file in the
+deployment directory, that links to your project's source code. And, if your
+deployment directory is Python's ``site-packages`` directory, it will also
+update the ``easy-install.pth`` file to include your project's source code,
+thereby making it available on ``sys.path`` for all programs using that Python
+installation.
+
+If you have enabled the ``use_2to3`` flag, then of course the ``.egg-link``
+will not link directly to your source code when run under Python 3, since
+that source code would be made for Python 2 and not work under Python 3.
+Instead the ``setup.py develop`` will build Python 3 code under the ``build``
+directory, and link there. This means that after doing code changes you will
+have to run ``setup.py build`` before these changes are picked up by your
+Python 3 installation.
+
+In addition, the ``develop`` command creates wrapper scripts in the target
+script directory that will run your in-development scripts after ensuring that
+all your ``install_requires`` packages are available on ``sys.path``.
+
+You can deploy the same project to multiple staging areas, e.g. if you have
+multiple projects on the same machine that are sharing the same project you're
+doing development work.
+
+When you're done with a given development task, you can remove the project
+source from a staging area using ``setup.py develop --uninstall``, specifying
+the desired staging area if it's not the default.
+
+There are several options to control the precise behavior of the ``develop``
+command; see the section on the `develop`_ command below for more details.
+
+Note that you can also apply setuptools commands to non-setuptools projects,
+using commands like this::
+
+ python -c "import setuptools; execfile('setup.py')" develop
+
+That is, you can simply list the normal setup commands and options following
+the quoted part.
+
+
+Distributing a ``setuptools``-based project
+===========================================
+
+Using ``setuptools``... Without bundling it!
+---------------------------------------------
+
+.. warning:: **ez_setup** is deprecated in favor of PIP with **PEP-518** support.
+
+Your users might not have ``setuptools`` installed on their machines, or even
+if they do, it might not be the right version. Fixing this is easy; just
+download `ez_setup.py`_, and put it in the same directory as your ``setup.py``
+script. (Be sure to add it to your revision control system, too.) Then add
+these two lines to the very top of your setup script, before the script imports
+anything from setuptools:
+
+.. code-block:: python
+
+ import ez_setup
+ ez_setup.use_setuptools()
+
+That's it. The ``ez_setup`` module will automatically download a matching
+version of ``setuptools`` from PyPI, if it isn't present on the target system.
+Whenever you install an updated version of setuptools, you should also update
+your projects' ``ez_setup.py`` files, so that a matching version gets installed
+on the target machine(s).
+
+By the way, setuptools supports the new PyPI "upload" command, so you can use
+``setup.py sdist upload`` or ``setup.py bdist_egg upload`` to upload your
+source or egg distributions respectively. Your project's current version must
+be registered with PyPI first, of course; you can use ``setup.py register`` to
+do that. Or you can do it all in one step, e.g. ``setup.py register sdist
+bdist_egg upload`` will register the package, build source and egg
+distributions, and then upload them both to PyPI, where they'll be easily
+found by other projects that depend on them.
+
+(By the way, if you need to distribute a specific version of ``setuptools``,
+you can specify the exact version and base download URL as parameters to the
+``use_setuptools()`` function. See the function's docstring for details.)
+
+
+What Your Users Should Know
+---------------------------
+
+In general, a setuptools-based project looks just like any distutils-based
+project -- as long as your users have an internet connection and are installing
+to ``site-packages``, that is. But for some users, these conditions don't
+apply, and they may become frustrated if this is their first encounter with
+a setuptools-based project. To keep these users happy, you should review the
+following topics in your project's installation instructions, if they are
+relevant to your project and your target audience isn't already familiar with
+setuptools and ``easy_install``.
+
+Network Access
+ If your project is using ``ez_setup``, you should inform users of the
+ need to either have network access, or to preinstall the correct version of
+ setuptools using the `EasyInstall installation instructions`_. Those
+ instructions also have tips for dealing with firewalls as well as how to
+ manually download and install setuptools.
+
+Custom Installation Locations
+ You should inform your users that if they are installing your project to
+ somewhere other than the main ``site-packages`` directory, they should
+ first install setuptools using the instructions for `Custom Installation
+ Locations`_, before installing your project.
+
+Your Project's Dependencies
+ If your project depends on other projects that may need to be downloaded
+ from PyPI or elsewhere, you should list them in your installation
+ instructions, or tell users how to find out what they are. While most
+ users will not need this information, any users who don't have unrestricted
+ internet access may have to find, download, and install the other projects
+ manually. (Note, however, that they must still install those projects
+ using ``easy_install``, or your project will not know they are installed,
+ and your setup script will try to download them again.)
+
+ If you want to be especially friendly to users with limited network access,
+ you may wish to build eggs for your project and its dependencies, making
+ them all available for download from your site, or at least create a page
+ with links to all of the needed eggs. In this way, users with limited
+ network access can manually download all the eggs to a single directory,
+ then use the ``-f`` option of ``easy_install`` to specify the directory
+ to find eggs in. Users who have full network access can just use ``-f``
+ with the URL of your download page, and ``easy_install`` will find all the
+ needed eggs using your links directly. This is also useful when your
+ target audience isn't able to compile packages (e.g. most Windows users)
+ and your package or some of its dependencies include C code.
+
+Revision Control System Users and Co-Developers
+ Users and co-developers who are tracking your in-development code using
+ a revision control system should probably read this manual's sections
+ regarding such development. Alternately, you may wish to create a
+ quick-reference guide containing the tips from this manual that apply to
+ your particular situation. For example, if you recommend that people use
+ ``setup.py develop`` when tracking your in-development code, you should let
+ them know that this needs to be run after every update or commit.
+
+ Similarly, if you remove modules or data files from your project, you
+ should remind them to run ``setup.py clean --all`` and delete any obsolete
+ ``.pyc`` or ``.pyo``. (This tip applies to the distutils in general, not
+ just setuptools, but not everybody knows about them; be kind to your users
+ by spelling out your project's best practices rather than leaving them
+ guessing.)
+
+Creating System Packages
+ Some users want to manage all Python packages using a single package
+ manager, and sometimes that package manager isn't ``easy_install``!
+ Setuptools currently supports ``bdist_rpm``, ``bdist_wininst``, and
+ ``bdist_dumb`` formats for system packaging. If a user has a locally-
+ installed "bdist" packaging tool that internally uses the distutils
+ ``install`` command, it should be able to work with ``setuptools``. Some
+ examples of "bdist" formats that this should work with include the
+ ``bdist_nsi`` and ``bdist_msi`` formats for Windows.
+
+ However, packaging tools that build binary distributions by running
+ ``setup.py install`` on the command line or as a subprocess will require
+ modification to work with setuptools. They should use the
+ ``--single-version-externally-managed`` option to the ``install`` command,
+ combined with the standard ``--root`` or ``--record`` options.
+ See the `install command`_ documentation below for more details. The
+ ``bdist_deb`` command is an example of a command that currently requires
+ this kind of patching to work with setuptools.
+
+ If you or your users have a problem building a usable system package for
+ your project, please report the problem via the mailing list so that
+ either the "bdist" tool in question or setuptools can be modified to
+ resolve the issue.
+
+
+Setting the ``zip_safe`` flag
+-----------------------------
+
+For some use cases (such as bundling as part of a larger application), Python
+packages may be run directly from a zip file.
+Not all packages, however, are capable of running in compressed form, because
+they may expect to be able to access either source code or data files as
+normal operating system files. So, ``setuptools`` can install your project
+as a zipfile or a directory, and its default choice is determined by the
+project's ``zip_safe`` flag.
+
+You can pass a True or False value for the ``zip_safe`` argument to the
+``setup()`` function, or you can omit it. If you omit it, the ``bdist_egg``
+command will analyze your project's contents to see if it can detect any
+conditions that would prevent it from working in a zipfile. It will output
+notices to the console about any such conditions that it finds.
+
+Currently, this analysis is extremely conservative: it will consider the
+project unsafe if it contains any C extensions or datafiles whatsoever. This
+does *not* mean that the project can't or won't work as a zipfile! It just
+means that the ``bdist_egg`` authors aren't yet comfortable asserting that
+the project *will* work. If the project contains no C or data files, and does
+no ``__file__`` or ``__path__`` introspection or source code manipulation, then
+there is an extremely solid chance the project will work when installed as a
+zipfile. (And if the project uses ``pkg_resources`` for all its data file
+access, then C extensions and other data files shouldn't be a problem at all.
+See the `Accessing Data Files at Runtime`_ section above for more information.)
+
+However, if ``bdist_egg`` can't be *sure* that your package will work, but
+you've checked over all the warnings it issued, and you are either satisfied it
+*will* work (or if you want to try it for yourself), then you should set
+``zip_safe`` to ``True`` in your ``setup()`` call. If it turns out that it
+doesn't work, you can always change it to ``False``, which will force
+``setuptools`` to install your project as a directory rather than as a zipfile.
+
+Of course, the end-user can still override either decision, if they are using
+EasyInstall to install your package. And, if you want to override for testing
+purposes, you can just run ``setup.py easy_install --zip-ok .`` or ``setup.py
+easy_install --always-unzip .`` in your project directory. to install the
+package as a zipfile or directory, respectively.
+
+In the future, as we gain more experience with different packages and become
+more satisfied with the robustness of the ``pkg_resources`` runtime, the
+"zip safety" analysis may become less conservative. However, we strongly
+recommend that you determine for yourself whether your project functions
+correctly when installed as a zipfile, correct any problems if you can, and
+then make an explicit declaration of ``True`` or ``False`` for the ``zip_safe``
+flag, so that it will not be necessary for ``bdist_egg`` or ``EasyInstall`` to
+try to guess whether your project can work as a zipfile.
+
+
+Namespace Packages
+------------------
+
+Sometimes, a large package is more useful if distributed as a collection of
+smaller eggs. However, Python does not normally allow the contents of a
+package to be retrieved from more than one location. "Namespace packages"
+are a solution for this problem. When you declare a package to be a namespace
+package, it means that the package has no meaningful contents in its
+``__init__.py``, and that it is merely a container for modules and subpackages.
+
+The ``pkg_resources`` runtime will then automatically ensure that the contents
+of namespace packages that are spread over multiple eggs or directories are
+combined into a single "virtual" package.
+
+The ``namespace_packages`` argument to ``setup()`` lets you declare your
+project's namespace packages, so that they will be included in your project's
+metadata. The argument should list the namespace packages that the egg
+participates in. For example, the ZopeInterface project might do this::
+
+ setup(
+ # ...
+ namespace_packages=['zope']
+ )
+
+because it contains a ``zope.interface`` package that lives in the ``zope``
+namespace package. Similarly, a project for a standalone ``zope.publisher``
+would also declare the ``zope`` namespace package. When these projects are
+installed and used, Python will see them both as part of a "virtual" ``zope``
+package, even though they will be installed in different locations.
+
+Namespace packages don't have to be top-level packages. For example, Zope 3's
+``zope.app`` package is a namespace package, and in the future PEAK's
+``peak.util`` package will be too.
+
+Note, by the way, that your project's source tree must include the namespace
+packages' ``__init__.py`` files (and the ``__init__.py`` of any parent
+packages), in a normal Python package layout. These ``__init__.py`` files
+*must* contain the line::
+
+ __import__('pkg_resources').declare_namespace(__name__)
+
+This code ensures that the namespace package machinery is operating and that
+the current package is registered as a namespace package.
+
+You must NOT include any other code and data in a namespace package's
+``__init__.py``. Even though it may appear to work during development, or when
+projects are installed as ``.egg`` files, it will not work when the projects
+are installed using "system" packaging tools -- in such cases the
+``__init__.py`` files will not be installed, let alone executed.
+
+You must include the ``declare_namespace()`` line in the ``__init__.py`` of
+*every* project that has contents for the namespace package in question, in
+order to ensure that the namespace will be declared regardless of which
+project's copy of ``__init__.py`` is loaded first. If the first loaded
+``__init__.py`` doesn't declare it, it will never *be* declared, because no
+other copies will ever be loaded!
+
+
+TRANSITIONAL NOTE
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+Setuptools automatically calls ``declare_namespace()`` for you at runtime,
+but future versions may *not*. This is because the automatic declaration
+feature has some negative side effects, such as needing to import all namespace
+packages during the initialization of the ``pkg_resources`` runtime, and also
+the need for ``pkg_resources`` to be explicitly imported before any namespace
+packages work at all. In some future releases, you'll be responsible
+for including your own declaration lines, and the automatic declaration feature
+will be dropped to get rid of the negative side effects.
+
+During the remainder of the current development cycle, therefore, setuptools
+will warn you about missing ``declare_namespace()`` calls in your
+``__init__.py`` files, and you should correct these as soon as possible
+before the compatibility support is removed.
+Namespace packages without declaration lines will not work
+correctly once a user has upgraded to a later version, so it's important that
+you make this change now in order to avoid having your code break in the field.
+Our apologies for the inconvenience, and thank you for your patience.
+
+
+
+Tagging and "Daily Build" or "Snapshot" Releases
+------------------------------------------------
+
+When a set of related projects are under development, it may be important to
+track finer-grained version increments than you would normally use for e.g.
+"stable" releases. While stable releases might be measured in dotted numbers
+with alpha/beta/etc. status codes, development versions of a project often
+need to be tracked by revision or build number or even build date. This is
+especially true when projects in development need to refer to one another, and
+therefore may literally need an up-to-the-minute version of something!
+
+To support these scenarios, ``setuptools`` allows you to "tag" your source and
+egg distributions by adding one or more of the following to the project's
+"official" version identifier:
+
+* A manually-specified pre-release tag, such as "build" or "dev", or a
+ manually-specified post-release tag, such as a build or revision number
+ (``--tag-build=STRING, -bSTRING``)
+
+* An 8-character representation of the build date (``--tag-date, -d``), as
+ a postrelease tag
+
+You can add these tags by adding ``egg_info`` and the desired options to
+the command line ahead of the ``sdist`` or ``bdist`` commands that you want
+to generate a daily build or snapshot for. See the section below on the
+`egg_info`_ command for more details.
+
+(Also, before you release your project, be sure to see the section above on
+`Specifying Your Project's Version`_ for more information about how pre- and
+post-release tags affect how setuptools and EasyInstall interpret version
+numbers. This is important in order to make sure that dependency processing
+tools will know which versions of your project are newer than others.)
+
+Finally, if you are creating builds frequently, and either building them in a
+downloadable location or are copying them to a distribution server, you should
+probably also check out the `rotate`_ command, which lets you automatically
+delete all but the N most-recently-modified distributions matching a glob
+pattern. So, you can use a command line like::
+
+ setup.py egg_info -rbDEV bdist_egg rotate -m.egg -k3
+
+to build an egg whose version info includes 'DEV-rNNNN' (where NNNN is the
+most recent Subversion revision that affected the source tree), and then
+delete any egg files from the distribution directory except for the three
+that were built most recently.
+
+If you have to manage automated builds for multiple packages, each with
+different tagging and rotation policies, you may also want to check out the
+`alias`_ command, which would let each package define an alias like ``daily``
+that would perform the necessary tag, build, and rotate commands. Then, a
+simpler script or cron job could just run ``setup.py daily`` in each project
+directory. (And, you could also define sitewide or per-user default versions
+of the ``daily`` alias, so that projects that didn't define their own would
+use the appropriate defaults.)
+
+
+Generating Source Distributions
+-------------------------------
+
+``setuptools`` enhances the distutils' default algorithm for source file
+selection with pluggable endpoints for looking up files to include. If you are
+using a revision control system, and your source distributions only need to
+include files that you're tracking in revision control, use a corresponding
+plugin instead of writing a ``MANIFEST.in`` file. See the section below on
+`Adding Support for Revision Control Systems`_ for information on plugins.
+
+If you need to include automatically generated files, or files that are kept in
+an unsupported revision control system, you'll need to create a ``MANIFEST.in``
+file to specify any files that the default file location algorithm doesn't
+catch. See the distutils documentation for more information on the format of
+the ``MANIFEST.in`` file.
+
+But, be sure to ignore any part of the distutils documentation that deals with
+``MANIFEST`` or how it's generated from ``MANIFEST.in``; setuptools shields you
+from these issues and doesn't work the same way in any case. Unlike the
+distutils, setuptools regenerates the source distribution manifest file
+every time you build a source distribution, and it builds it inside the
+project's ``.egg-info`` directory, out of the way of your main project
+directory. You therefore need not worry about whether it is up-to-date or not.
+
+Indeed, because setuptools' approach to determining the contents of a source
+distribution is so much simpler, its ``sdist`` command omits nearly all of
+the options that the distutils' more complex ``sdist`` process requires. For
+all practical purposes, you'll probably use only the ``--formats`` option, if
+you use any option at all.
+
+
+Making your package available for EasyInstall
+---------------------------------------------
+
+If you use the ``register`` command (``setup.py register``) to register your
+package with PyPI, that's most of the battle right there. (See the
+`docs for the register command`_ for more details.)
+
+.. _docs for the register command: http://docs.python.org/dist/package-index.html
+
+If you also use the `upload`_ command to upload actual distributions of your
+package, that's even better, because EasyInstall will be able to find and
+download them directly from your project's PyPI page.
+
+However, there may be reasons why you don't want to upload distributions to
+PyPI, and just want your existing distributions (or perhaps a Subversion
+checkout) to be used instead.
+
+So here's what you need to do before running the ``register`` command. There
+are three ``setup()`` arguments that affect EasyInstall:
+
+``url`` and ``download_url``
+ These become links on your project's PyPI page. EasyInstall will examine
+ them to see if they link to a package ("primary links"), or whether they are
+ HTML pages. If they're HTML pages, EasyInstall scans all HREF's on the
+ page for primary links
+
+``long_description``
+ EasyInstall will check any URLs contained in this argument to see if they
+ are primary links.
+
+A URL is considered a "primary link" if it is a link to a .tar.gz, .tgz, .zip,
+.egg, .egg.zip, .tar.bz2, or .exe file, or if it has an ``#egg=project`` or
+``#egg=project-version`` fragment identifier attached to it. EasyInstall
+attempts to determine a project name and optional version number from the text
+of a primary link *without* downloading it. When it has found all the primary
+links, EasyInstall will select the best match based on requested version,
+platform compatibility, and other criteria.
+
+So, if your ``url`` or ``download_url`` point either directly to a downloadable
+source distribution, or to HTML page(s) that have direct links to such, then
+EasyInstall will be able to locate downloads automatically. If you want to
+make Subversion checkouts available, then you should create links with either
+``#egg=project`` or ``#egg=project-version`` added to the URL. You should
+replace ``project`` and ``version`` with the values they would have in an egg
+filename. (Be sure to actually generate an egg and then use the initial part
+of the filename, rather than trying to guess what the escaped form of the
+project name and version number will be.)
+
+Note that Subversion checkout links are of lower precedence than other kinds
+of distributions, so EasyInstall will not select a Subversion checkout for
+downloading unless it has a version included in the ``#egg=`` suffix, and
+it's a higher version than EasyInstall has seen in any other links for your
+project.
+
+As a result, it's a common practice to use mark checkout URLs with a version of
+"dev" (i.e., ``#egg=projectname-dev``), so that users can do something like
+this::
+
+ easy_install --editable projectname==dev
+
+in order to check out the in-development version of ``projectname``.
+
+
+Making "Official" (Non-Snapshot) Releases
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+When you make an official release, creating source or binary distributions,
+you will need to override the tag settings from ``setup.cfg``, so that you
+don't end up registering versions like ``foobar-0.7a1.dev-r34832``. This is
+easy to do if you are developing on the trunk and using tags or branches for
+your releases - just make the change to ``setup.cfg`` after branching or
+tagging the release, so the trunk will still produce development snapshots.
+
+Alternately, if you are not branching for releases, you can override the
+default version options on the command line, using something like::
+
+ python setup.py egg_info -Db "" sdist bdist_egg register upload
+
+The first part of this command (``egg_info -Db ""``) will override the
+configured tag information, before creating source and binary eggs, registering
+the project with PyPI, and uploading the files. Thus, these commands will use
+the plain version from your ``setup.py``, without adding the build designation
+string.
+
+Of course, if you will be doing this a lot, you may wish to create a personal
+alias for this operation, e.g.::
+
+ python setup.py alias -u release egg_info -Db ""
+
+You can then use it like this::
+
+ python setup.py release sdist bdist_egg register upload
+
+Or of course you can create more elaborate aliases that do all of the above.
+See the sections below on the `egg_info`_ and `alias`_ commands for more ideas.
+
+
+
+Distributing Extensions compiled with Pyrex
+-------------------------------------------
+
+``setuptools`` includes transparent support for building Pyrex extensions, as
+long as you define your extensions using ``setuptools.Extension``, *not*
+``distutils.Extension``. You must also not import anything from Pyrex in
+your setup script.
+
+If you follow these rules, you can safely list ``.pyx`` files as the source
+of your ``Extension`` objects in the setup script. ``setuptools`` will detect
+at build time whether Pyrex is installed or not. If it is, then ``setuptools``
+will use it. If not, then ``setuptools`` will silently change the
+``Extension`` objects to refer to the ``.c`` counterparts of the ``.pyx``
+files, so that the normal distutils C compilation process will occur.
+
+Of course, for this to work, your source distributions must include the C
+code generated by Pyrex, as well as your original ``.pyx`` files. This means
+that you will probably want to include current ``.c`` files in your revision
+control system, rebuilding them whenever you check changes in for the ``.pyx``
+source files. This will ensure that people tracking your project in a revision
+control system will be able to build it even if they don't have Pyrex
+installed, and that your source releases will be similarly usable with or
+without Pyrex.
+
+
+-----------------
+Command Reference
+-----------------
+
+.. _alias:
+
+``alias`` - Define shortcuts for commonly used commands
+=======================================================
+
+Sometimes, you need to use the same commands over and over, but you can't
+necessarily set them as defaults. For example, if you produce both development
+snapshot releases and "stable" releases of a project, you may want to put
+the distributions in different places, or use different ``egg_info`` tagging
+options, etc. In these cases, it doesn't make sense to set the options in
+a distutils configuration file, because the values of the options changed based
+on what you're trying to do.
+
+Setuptools therefore allows you to define "aliases" - shortcut names for
+an arbitrary string of commands and options, using ``setup.py alias aliasname
+expansion``, where aliasname is the name of the new alias, and the remainder of
+the command line supplies its expansion. For example, this command defines
+a sitewide alias called "daily", that sets various ``egg_info`` tagging
+options::
+
+ setup.py alias --global-config daily egg_info --tag-build=development
+
+Once the alias is defined, it can then be used with other setup commands,
+e.g.::
+
+ setup.py daily bdist_egg # generate a daily-build .egg file
+ setup.py daily sdist # generate a daily-build source distro
+ setup.py daily sdist bdist_egg # generate both
+
+The above commands are interpreted as if the word ``daily`` were replaced with
+``egg_info --tag-build=development``.
+
+Note that setuptools will expand each alias *at most once* in a given command
+line. This serves two purposes. First, if you accidentally create an alias
+loop, it will have no effect; you'll instead get an error message about an
+unknown command. Second, it allows you to define an alias for a command, that
+uses that command. For example, this (project-local) alias::
+
+ setup.py alias bdist_egg bdist_egg rotate -k1 -m.egg
+
+redefines the ``bdist_egg`` command so that it always runs the ``rotate``
+command afterwards to delete all but the newest egg file. It doesn't loop
+indefinitely on ``bdist_egg`` because the alias is only expanded once when
+used.
+
+You can remove a defined alias with the ``--remove`` (or ``-r``) option, e.g.::
+
+ setup.py alias --global-config --remove daily
+
+would delete the "daily" alias we defined above.
+
+Aliases can be defined on a project-specific, per-user, or sitewide basis. The
+default is to define or remove a project-specific alias, but you can use any of
+the `configuration file options`_ (listed under the `saveopts`_ command, below)
+to determine which distutils configuration file an aliases will be added to
+(or removed from).
+
+Note that if you omit the "expansion" argument to the ``alias`` command,
+you'll get output showing that alias' current definition (and what
+configuration file it's defined in). If you omit the alias name as well,
+you'll get a listing of all current aliases along with their configuration
+file locations.
+
+
+``bdist_egg`` - Create a Python Egg for the project
+===================================================
+
+This command generates a Python Egg (``.egg`` file) for the project. Python
+Eggs are the preferred binary distribution format for EasyInstall, because they
+are cross-platform (for "pure" packages), directly importable, and contain
+project metadata including scripts and information about the project's
+dependencies. They can be simply downloaded and added to ``sys.path``
+directly, or they can be placed in a directory on ``sys.path`` and then
+automatically discovered by the egg runtime system.
+
+This command runs the `egg_info`_ command (if it hasn't already run) to update
+the project's metadata (``.egg-info``) directory. If you have added any extra
+metadata files to the ``.egg-info`` directory, those files will be included in
+the new egg file's metadata directory, for use by the egg runtime system or by
+any applications or frameworks that use that metadata.
+
+You won't usually need to specify any special options for this command; just
+use ``bdist_egg`` and you're done. But there are a few options that may
+be occasionally useful:
+
+``--dist-dir=DIR, -d DIR``
+ Set the directory where the ``.egg`` file will be placed. If you don't
+ supply this, then the ``--dist-dir`` setting of the ``bdist`` command
+ will be used, which is usually a directory named ``dist`` in the project
+ directory.
+
+``--plat-name=PLATFORM, -p PLATFORM``
+ Set the platform name string that will be embedded in the egg's filename
+ (assuming the egg contains C extensions). This can be used to override
+ the distutils default platform name with something more meaningful. Keep
+ in mind, however, that the egg runtime system expects to see eggs with
+ distutils platform names, so it may ignore or reject eggs with non-standard
+ platform names. Similarly, the EasyInstall program may ignore them when
+ searching web pages for download links. However, if you are
+ cross-compiling or doing some other unusual things, you might find a use
+ for this option.
+
+``--exclude-source-files``
+ Don't include any modules' ``.py`` files in the egg, just compiled Python,
+ C, and data files. (Note that this doesn't affect any ``.py`` files in the
+ EGG-INFO directory or its subdirectories, since for example there may be
+ scripts with a ``.py`` extension which must still be retained.) We don't
+ recommend that you use this option except for packages that are being
+ bundled for proprietary end-user applications, or for "embedded" scenarios
+ where space is at an absolute premium. On the other hand, if your package
+ is going to be installed and used in compressed form, you might as well
+ exclude the source because Python's ``traceback`` module doesn't currently
+ understand how to display zipped source code anyway, or how to deal with
+ files that are in a different place from where their code was compiled.
+
+There are also some options you will probably never need, but which are there
+because they were copied from similar ``bdist`` commands used as an example for
+creating this one. They may be useful for testing and debugging, however,
+which is why we kept them:
+
+``--keep-temp, -k``
+ Keep the contents of the ``--bdist-dir`` tree around after creating the
+ ``.egg`` file.
+
+``--bdist-dir=DIR, -b DIR``
+ Set the temporary directory for creating the distribution. The entire
+ contents of this directory are zipped to create the ``.egg`` file, after
+ running various installation commands to copy the package's modules, data,
+ and extensions here.
+
+``--skip-build``
+ Skip doing any "build" commands; just go straight to the
+ install-and-compress phases.
+
+
+.. _develop:
+
+``develop`` - Deploy the project source in "Development Mode"
+=============================================================
+
+This command allows you to deploy your project's source for use in one or more
+"staging areas" where it will be available for importing. This deployment is
+done in such a way that changes to the project source are immediately available
+in the staging area(s), without needing to run a build or install step after
+each change.
+
+The ``develop`` command works by creating an ``.egg-link`` file (named for the
+project) in the given staging area. If the staging area is Python's
+``site-packages`` directory, it also updates an ``easy-install.pth`` file so
+that the project is on ``sys.path`` by default for all programs run using that
+Python installation.
+
+The ``develop`` command also installs wrapper scripts in the staging area (or
+a separate directory, as specified) that will ensure the project's dependencies
+are available on ``sys.path`` before running the project's source scripts.
+And, it ensures that any missing project dependencies are available in the
+staging area, by downloading and installing them if necessary.
+
+Last, but not least, the ``develop`` command invokes the ``build_ext -i``
+command to ensure any C extensions in the project have been built and are
+up-to-date, and the ``egg_info`` command to ensure the project's metadata is
+updated (so that the runtime and wrappers know what the project's dependencies
+are). If you make any changes to the project's setup script or C extensions,
+you should rerun the ``develop`` command against all relevant staging areas to
+keep the project's scripts, metadata and extensions up-to-date. Most other
+kinds of changes to your project should not require any build operations or
+rerunning ``develop``, but keep in mind that even minor changes to the setup
+script (e.g. changing an entry point definition) require you to re-run the
+``develop`` or ``test`` commands to keep the distribution updated.
+
+Here are some of the options that the ``develop`` command accepts. Note that
+they affect the project's dependencies as well as the project itself, so if you
+have dependencies that need to be installed and you use ``--exclude-scripts``
+(for example), the dependencies' scripts will not be installed either! For
+this reason, you may want to use EasyInstall to install the project's
+dependencies before using the ``develop`` command, if you need finer control
+over the installation options for dependencies.
+
+``--uninstall, -u``
+ Un-deploy the current project. You may use the ``--install-dir`` or ``-d``
+ option to designate the staging area. The created ``.egg-link`` file will
+ be removed, if present and it is still pointing to the project directory.
+ The project directory will be removed from ``easy-install.pth`` if the
+ staging area is Python's ``site-packages`` directory.
+
+ Note that this option currently does *not* uninstall script wrappers! You
+ must uninstall them yourself, or overwrite them by using EasyInstall to
+ activate a different version of the package. You can also avoid installing
+ script wrappers in the first place, if you use the ``--exclude-scripts``
+ (aka ``-x``) option when you run ``develop`` to deploy the project.
+
+``--multi-version, -m``
+ "Multi-version" mode. Specifying this option prevents ``develop`` from
+ adding an ``easy-install.pth`` entry for the project(s) being deployed, and
+ if an entry for any version of a project already exists, the entry will be
+ removed upon successful deployment. In multi-version mode, no specific
+ version of the package is available for importing, unless you use
+ ``pkg_resources.require()`` to put it on ``sys.path``, or you are running
+ a wrapper script generated by ``setuptools`` or EasyInstall. (In which
+ case the wrapper script calls ``require()`` for you.)
+
+ Note that if you install to a directory other than ``site-packages``,
+ this option is automatically in effect, because ``.pth`` files can only be
+ used in ``site-packages`` (at least in Python 2.3 and 2.4). So, if you use
+ the ``--install-dir`` or ``-d`` option (or they are set via configuration
+ file(s)) your project and its dependencies will be deployed in multi-
+ version mode.
+
+``--install-dir=DIR, -d DIR``
+ Set the installation directory (staging area). If this option is not
+ directly specified on the command line or in a distutils configuration
+ file, the distutils default installation location is used. Normally, this
+ will be the ``site-packages`` directory, but if you are using distutils
+ configuration files, setting things like ``prefix`` or ``install_lib``,
+ then those settings are taken into account when computing the default
+ staging area.
+
+``--script-dir=DIR, -s DIR``
+ Set the script installation directory. If you don't supply this option
+ (via the command line or a configuration file), but you *have* supplied
+ an ``--install-dir`` (via command line or config file), then this option
+ defaults to the same directory, so that the scripts will be able to find
+ their associated package installation. Otherwise, this setting defaults
+ to the location where the distutils would normally install scripts, taking
+ any distutils configuration file settings into account.
+
+``--exclude-scripts, -x``
+ Don't deploy script wrappers. This is useful if you don't want to disturb
+ existing versions of the scripts in the staging area.
+
+``--always-copy, -a``
+ Copy all needed distributions to the staging area, even if they
+ are already present in another directory on ``sys.path``. By default, if
+ a requirement can be met using a distribution that is already available in
+ a directory on ``sys.path``, it will not be copied to the staging area.
+
+``--egg-path=DIR``
+ Force the generated ``.egg-link`` file to use a specified relative path
+ to the source directory. This can be useful in circumstances where your
+ installation directory is being shared by code running under multiple
+ platforms (e.g. Mac and Windows) which have different absolute locations
+ for the code under development, but the same *relative* locations with
+ respect to the installation directory. If you use this option when
+ installing, you must supply the same relative path when uninstalling.
+
+In addition to the above options, the ``develop`` command also accepts all of
+the same options accepted by ``easy_install``. If you've configured any
+``easy_install`` settings in your ``setup.cfg`` (or other distutils config
+files), the ``develop`` command will use them as defaults, unless you override
+them in a ``[develop]`` section or on the command line.
+
+
+``easy_install`` - Find and install packages
+============================================
+
+This command runs the `EasyInstall tool
+<easy_install.html>`_ for you. It is exactly
+equivalent to running the ``easy_install`` command. All command line arguments
+following this command are consumed and not processed further by the distutils,
+so this must be the last command listed on the command line. Please see
+the EasyInstall documentation for the options reference and usage examples.
+Normally, there is no reason to use this command via the command line, as you
+can just use ``easy_install`` directly. It's only listed here so that you know
+it's a distutils command, which means that you can:
+
+* create command aliases that use it,
+* create distutils extensions that invoke it as a subcommand, and
+* configure options for it in your ``setup.cfg`` or other distutils config
+ files.
+
+
+.. _egg_info:
+
+``egg_info`` - Create egg metadata and set build tags
+=====================================================
+
+This command performs two operations: it updates a project's ``.egg-info``
+metadata directory (used by the ``bdist_egg``, ``develop``, and ``test``
+commands), and it allows you to temporarily change a project's version string,
+to support "daily builds" or "snapshot" releases. It is run automatically by
+the ``sdist``, ``bdist_egg``, ``develop``, ``register``, and ``test`` commands
+in order to update the project's metadata, but you can also specify it
+explicitly in order to temporarily change the project's version string while
+executing other commands. (It also generates the``.egg-info/SOURCES.txt``
+manifest file, which is used when you are building source distributions.)
+
+In addition to writing the core egg metadata defined by ``setuptools`` and
+required by ``pkg_resources``, this command can be extended to write other
+metadata files as well, by defining entry points in the ``egg_info.writers``
+group. See the section on `Adding new EGG-INFO Files`_ below for more details.
+Note that using additional metadata writers may require you to include a
+``setup_requires`` argument to ``setup()`` in order to ensure that the desired
+writers are available on ``sys.path``.
+
+
+Release Tagging Options
+-----------------------
+
+The following options can be used to modify the project's version string for
+all remaining commands on the setup command line. The options are processed
+in the order shown, so if you use more than one, the requested tags will be
+added in the following order:
+
+``--tag-build=NAME, -b NAME``
+ Append NAME to the project's version string. Due to the way setuptools
+ processes "pre-release" version suffixes beginning with the letters "a"
+ through "e" (like "alpha", "beta", and "candidate"), you will usually want
+ to use a tag like ".build" or ".dev", as this will cause the version number
+ to be considered *lower* than the project's default version. (If you
+ want to make the version number *higher* than the default version, you can
+ always leave off --tag-build and then use one or both of the following
+ options.)
+
+ If you have a default build tag set in your ``setup.cfg``, you can suppress
+ it on the command line using ``-b ""`` or ``--tag-build=""`` as an argument
+ to the ``egg_info`` command.
+
+``--tag-date, -d``
+ Add a date stamp of the form "-YYYYMMDD" (e.g. "-20050528") to the
+ project's version number.
+
+``--no-date, -D``
+ Don't include a date stamp in the version number. This option is included
+ so you can override a default setting in ``setup.cfg``.
+
+
+(Note: Because these options modify the version number used for source and
+binary distributions of your project, you should first make sure that you know
+how the resulting version numbers will be interpreted by automated tools
+like EasyInstall. See the section above on `Specifying Your Project's
+Version`_ for an explanation of pre- and post-release tags, as well as tips on
+how to choose and verify a versioning scheme for your your project.)
+
+For advanced uses, there is one other option that can be set, to change the
+location of the project's ``.egg-info`` directory. Commands that need to find
+the project's source directory or metadata should get it from this setting:
+
+
+Other ``egg_info`` Options
+--------------------------
+
+``--egg-base=SOURCEDIR, -e SOURCEDIR``
+ Specify the directory that should contain the .egg-info directory. This
+ should normally be the root of your project's source tree (which is not
+ necessarily the same as your project directory; some projects use a ``src``
+ or ``lib`` subdirectory as the source root). You should not normally need
+ to specify this directory, as it is normally determined from the
+ ``package_dir`` argument to the ``setup()`` function, if any. If there is
+ no ``package_dir`` set, this option defaults to the current directory.
+
+
+``egg_info`` Examples
+---------------------
+
+Creating a dated "nightly build" snapshot egg::
+
+ python setup.py egg_info --tag-date --tag-build=DEV bdist_egg
+
+Creating and uploading a release with no version tags, even if some default
+tags are specified in ``setup.cfg``::
+
+ python setup.py egg_info -RDb "" sdist bdist_egg register upload
+
+(Notice that ``egg_info`` must always appear on the command line *before* any
+commands that you want the version changes to apply to.)
+
+
+.. _install command:
+
+``install`` - Run ``easy_install`` or old-style installation
+============================================================
+
+The setuptools ``install`` command is basically a shortcut to run the
+``easy_install`` command on the current project. However, for convenience
+in creating "system packages" of setuptools-based projects, you can also
+use this option:
+
+``--single-version-externally-managed``
+ This boolean option tells the ``install`` command to perform an "old style"
+ installation, with the addition of an ``.egg-info`` directory so that the
+ installed project will still have its metadata available and operate
+ normally. If you use this option, you *must* also specify the ``--root``
+ or ``--record`` options (or both), because otherwise you will have no way
+ to identify and remove the installed files.
+
+This option is automatically in effect when ``install`` is invoked by another
+distutils command, so that commands like ``bdist_wininst`` and ``bdist_rpm``
+will create system packages of eggs. It is also automatically in effect if
+you specify the ``--root`` option.
+
+
+``install_egg_info`` - Install an ``.egg-info`` directory in ``site-packages``
+==============================================================================
+
+Setuptools runs this command as part of ``install`` operations that use the
+``--single-version-externally-managed`` options. You should not invoke it
+directly; it is documented here for completeness and so that distutils
+extensions such as system package builders can make use of it. This command
+has only one option:
+
+``--install-dir=DIR, -d DIR``
+ The parent directory where the ``.egg-info`` directory will be placed.
+ Defaults to the same as the ``--install-dir`` option specified for the
+ ``install_lib`` command, which is usually the system ``site-packages``
+ directory.
+
+This command assumes that the ``egg_info`` command has been given valid options
+via the command line or ``setup.cfg``, as it will invoke the ``egg_info``
+command and use its options to locate the project's source ``.egg-info``
+directory.
+
+
+.. _rotate:
+
+``rotate`` - Delete outdated distribution files
+===============================================
+
+As you develop new versions of your project, your distribution (``dist``)
+directory will gradually fill up with older source and/or binary distribution
+files. The ``rotate`` command lets you automatically clean these up, keeping
+only the N most-recently modified files matching a given pattern.
+
+``--match=PATTERNLIST, -m PATTERNLIST``
+ Comma-separated list of glob patterns to match. This option is *required*.
+ The project name and ``-*`` is prepended to the supplied patterns, in order
+ to match only distributions belonging to the current project (in case you
+ have a shared distribution directory for multiple projects). Typically,
+ you will use a glob pattern like ``.zip`` or ``.egg`` to match files of
+ the specified type. Note that each supplied pattern is treated as a
+ distinct group of files for purposes of selecting files to delete.
+
+``--keep=COUNT, -k COUNT``
+ Number of matching distributions to keep. For each group of files
+ identified by a pattern specified with the ``--match`` option, delete all
+ but the COUNT most-recently-modified files in that group. This option is
+ *required*.
+
+``--dist-dir=DIR, -d DIR``
+ Directory where the distributions are. This defaults to the value of the
+ ``bdist`` command's ``--dist-dir`` option, which will usually be the
+ project's ``dist`` subdirectory.
+
+**Example 1**: Delete all .tar.gz files from the distribution directory, except
+for the 3 most recently modified ones::
+
+ setup.py rotate --match=.tar.gz --keep=3
+
+**Example 2**: Delete all Python 2.3 or Python 2.4 eggs from the distribution
+directory, except the most recently modified one for each Python version::
+
+ setup.py rotate --match=-py2.3*.egg,-py2.4*.egg --keep=1
+
+
+.. _saveopts:
+
+``saveopts`` - Save used options to a configuration file
+========================================================
+
+Finding and editing ``distutils`` configuration files can be a pain, especially
+since you also have to translate the configuration options from command-line
+form to the proper configuration file format. You can avoid these hassles by
+using the ``saveopts`` command. Just add it to the command line to save the
+options you used. For example, this command builds the project using
+the ``mingw32`` C compiler, then saves the --compiler setting as the default
+for future builds (even those run implicitly by the ``install`` command)::
+
+ setup.py build --compiler=mingw32 saveopts
+
+The ``saveopts`` command saves all options for every command specified on the
+command line to the project's local ``setup.cfg`` file, unless you use one of
+the `configuration file options`_ to change where the options are saved. For
+example, this command does the same as above, but saves the compiler setting
+to the site-wide (global) distutils configuration::
+
+ setup.py build --compiler=mingw32 saveopts -g
+
+Note that it doesn't matter where you place the ``saveopts`` command on the
+command line; it will still save all the options specified for all commands.
+For example, this is another valid way to spell the last example::
+
+ setup.py saveopts -g build --compiler=mingw32
+
+Note, however, that all of the commands specified are always run, regardless of
+where ``saveopts`` is placed on the command line.
+
+
+Configuration File Options
+--------------------------
+
+Normally, settings such as options and aliases are saved to the project's
+local ``setup.cfg`` file. But you can override this and save them to the
+global or per-user configuration files, or to a manually-specified filename.
+
+``--global-config, -g``
+ Save settings to the global ``distutils.cfg`` file inside the ``distutils``
+ package directory. You must have write access to that directory to use
+ this option. You also can't combine this option with ``-u`` or ``-f``.
+
+``--user-config, -u``
+ Save settings to the current user's ``~/.pydistutils.cfg`` (POSIX) or
+ ``$HOME/pydistutils.cfg`` (Windows) file. You can't combine this option
+ with ``-g`` or ``-f``.
+
+``--filename=FILENAME, -f FILENAME``
+ Save settings to the specified configuration file to use. You can't
+ combine this option with ``-g`` or ``-u``. Note that if you specify a
+ non-standard filename, the ``distutils`` and ``setuptools`` will not
+ use the file's contents. This option is mainly included for use in
+ testing.
+
+These options are used by other ``setuptools`` commands that modify
+configuration files, such as the `alias`_ and `setopt`_ commands.
+
+
+.. _setopt:
+
+``setopt`` - Set a distutils or setuptools option in a config file
+==================================================================
+
+This command is mainly for use by scripts, but it can also be used as a quick
+and dirty way to change a distutils configuration option without having to
+remember what file the options are in and then open an editor.
+
+**Example 1**. Set the default C compiler to ``mingw32`` (using long option
+names)::
+
+ setup.py setopt --command=build --option=compiler --set-value=mingw32
+
+**Example 2**. Remove any setting for the distutils default package
+installation directory (short option names)::
+
+ setup.py setopt -c install -o install_lib -r
+
+
+Options for the ``setopt`` command:
+
+``--command=COMMAND, -c COMMAND``
+ Command to set the option for. This option is required.
+
+``--option=OPTION, -o OPTION``
+ The name of the option to set. This option is required.
+
+``--set-value=VALUE, -s VALUE``
+ The value to set the option to. Not needed if ``-r`` or ``--remove`` is
+ set.
+
+``--remove, -r``
+ Remove (unset) the option, instead of setting it.
+
+In addition to the above options, you may use any of the `configuration file
+options`_ (listed under the `saveopts`_ command, above) to determine which
+distutils configuration file the option will be added to (or removed from).
+
+
+.. _test:
+
+``test`` - Build package and run a unittest suite
+=================================================
+
+When doing test-driven development, or running automated builds that need
+testing before they are deployed for downloading or use, it's often useful
+to be able to run a project's unit tests without actually deploying the project
+anywhere, even using the ``develop`` command. The ``test`` command runs a
+project's unit tests without actually deploying it, by temporarily putting the
+project's source on ``sys.path``, after first running ``build_ext -i`` and
+``egg_info`` to ensure that any C extensions and project metadata are
+up-to-date.
+
+To use this command, your project's tests must be wrapped in a ``unittest``
+test suite by either a function, a ``TestCase`` class or method, or a module
+or package containing ``TestCase`` classes. If the named suite is a module,
+and the module has an ``additional_tests()`` function, it is called and the
+result (which must be a ``unittest.TestSuite``) is added to the tests to be
+run. If the named suite is a package, any submodules and subpackages are
+recursively added to the overall test suite. (Note: if your project specifies
+a ``test_loader``, the rules for processing the chosen ``test_suite`` may
+differ; see the `test_loader`_ documentation for more details.)
+
+Note that many test systems including ``doctest`` support wrapping their
+non-``unittest`` tests in ``TestSuite`` objects. So, if you are using a test
+package that does not support this, we suggest you encourage its developers to
+implement test suite support, as this is a convenient and standard way to
+aggregate a collection of tests to be run under a common test harness.
+
+By default, tests will be run in the "verbose" mode of the ``unittest``
+package's text test runner, but you can get the "quiet" mode (just dots) if
+you supply the ``-q`` or ``--quiet`` option, either as a global option to
+the setup script (e.g. ``setup.py -q test``) or as an option for the ``test``
+command itself (e.g. ``setup.py test -q``). There is one other option
+available:
+
+``--test-suite=NAME, -s NAME``
+ Specify the test suite (or module, class, or method) to be run
+ (e.g. ``some_module.test_suite``). The default for this option can be
+ set by giving a ``test_suite`` argument to the ``setup()`` function, e.g.::
+
+ setup(
+ # ...
+ test_suite="my_package.tests.test_all"
+ )
+
+ If you did not set a ``test_suite`` in your ``setup()`` call, and do not
+ provide a ``--test-suite`` option, an error will occur.
+
+
+.. _upload:
+
+``upload`` - Upload source and/or egg distributions to PyPI
+===========================================================
+
+The ``upload`` command is implemented and `documented
+<https://docs.python.org/3.1/distutils/uploading.html>`_
+in distutils.
+
+Setuptools augments the ``upload`` command with support
+for `keyring <https://pypi.org/project/keyring/>`_,
+allowing the password to be stored in a secure
+location and not in plaintext in the .pypirc file. To use
+keyring, first install keyring and set the password for
+the relevant repository, e.g.::
+
+ python -m keyring set <repository> <username>
+ Password for '<username>' in '<repository>': ********
+
+Then, in .pypirc, set the repository configuration as normal,
+but omit the password. Thereafter, uploads will use the
+password from the keyring.
+
+New in 20.1: Added keyring support.
+
+
+-----------------------------------------
+Configuring setup() using setup.cfg files
+-----------------------------------------
+
+.. note:: New in 30.3.0 (8 Dec 2016).
+
+.. important::
+ A ``setup.py`` file containing a ``setup()`` function call is still
+ required even if your configuration resides in ``setup.cfg``.
+
+``Setuptools`` allows using configuration files (usually :file:`setup.cfg`)
+to define a package’s metadata and other options that are normally supplied
+to the ``setup()`` function.
+
+This approach not only allows automation scenarios but also reduces
+boilerplate code in some cases.
+
+.. note::
+
+ This implementation has limited compatibility with the distutils2-like
+ ``setup.cfg`` sections used by the ``pbr`` and ``d2to1`` packages.
+
+ Namely: only metadata-related keys from ``metadata`` section are supported
+ (except for ``description-file``); keys from ``files``, ``entry_points``
+ and ``backwards_compat`` are not supported.
+
+
+.. code-block:: ini
+
+ [metadata]
+ name = my_package
+ version = attr: src.VERSION
+ description = My package description
+ long_description = file: README.rst, CHANGELOG.rst, LICENSE.rst
+ keywords = one, two
+ license = BSD 3-Clause License
+ classifiers =
+ Framework :: Django
+ Programming Language :: Python :: 3
+ Programming Language :: Python :: 3.5
+
+ [options]
+ zip_safe = False
+ include_package_data = True
+ packages = find:
+ scripts =
+ bin/first.py
+ bin/second.py
+
+ [options.package_data]
+ * = *.txt, *.rst
+ hello = *.msg
+
+ [options.extras_require]
+ pdf = ReportLab>=1.2; RXP
+ rest = docutils>=0.3; pack ==1.1, ==1.3
+
+ [options.packages.find]
+ exclude =
+ src.subpackage1
+ src.subpackage2
+
+
+Metadata and options are set in the config sections of the same name.
+
+* Keys are the same as the keyword arguments one provides to the ``setup()``
+ function.
+
+* Complex values can be written comma-separated or placed one per line
+ in *dangling* config values. The following are equivalent:
+
+ .. code-block:: ini
+
+ [metadata]
+ keywords = one, two
+
+ [metadata]
+ keywords =
+ one
+ two
+
+* In some cases, complex values can be provided in dedicated subsections for
+ clarity.
+
+* Some keys allow ``file:``, ``attr:``, and ``find:`` directives in order to
+ cover common usecases.
+
+* Unknown keys are ignored.
+
+
+Specifying values
+=================
+
+Some values are treated as simple strings, some allow more logic.
+
+Type names used below:
+
+* ``str`` - simple string
+* ``list-comma`` - dangling list or string of comma-separated values
+* ``list-semi`` - dangling list or string of semicolon-separated values
+* ``bool`` - ``True`` is 1, yes, true
+* ``dict`` - list-comma where keys are separated from values by ``=``
+* ``section`` - values are read from a dedicated (sub)section
+
+
+Special directives:
+
+* ``attr:`` - Value is read from a module attribute. ``attr:`` supports
+ callables and iterables; unsupported types are cast using ``str()``.
+* ``file:`` - Value is read from a list of files and then concatenated
+
+
+.. note::
+ The ``file:`` directive is sandboxed and won't reach anything outside
+ the directory containing ``setup.py``.
+
+
+Metadata
+--------
+
+.. note::
+ The aliases given below are supported for compatibility reasons,
+ but their use is not advised.
+
+============================== ================= =====
+Key Aliases Type
+============================== ================= =====
+name str
+version attr:, str
+url home-page str
+download_url download-url str
+project_urls dict
+author str
+author_email author-email str
+maintainer str
+maintainer_email maintainer-email str
+classifiers classifier file:, list-comma
+license file:, str
+description summary file:, str
+long_description long-description file:, str
+long_description_content_type str
+keywords list-comma
+platforms platform list-comma
+provides list-comma
+requires list-comma
+obsoletes list-comma
+============================== ================= =====
+
+
+Options
+-------
+
+======================= =====
+Key Type
+======================= =====
+zip_safe bool
+setup_requires list-semi
+install_requires list-semi
+extras_require section
+python_requires str
+entry_points file:, section
+use_2to3 bool
+use_2to3_fixers list-comma
+use_2to3_exclude_fixers list-comma
+convert_2to3_doctests list-comma
+scripts list-comma
+eager_resources list-comma
+dependency_links list-comma
+tests_require list-semi
+include_package_data bool
+packages find:, list-comma
+package_dir dict
+package_data section
+exclude_package_data section
+namespace_packages list-comma
+py_modules list-comma
+======================= =====
+
+.. note::
+
+ **packages** - The ``find:`` directive can be further configured
+ in a dedicated subsection ``options.packages.find``. This subsection
+ accepts the same keys as the `setuptools.find` function:
+ ``where``, ``include``, and ``exclude``.
+
+
+Configuration API
+=================
+
+Some automation tools may wish to access data from a configuration file.
+
+``Setuptools`` exposes a ``read_configuration()`` function for
+parsing ``metadata`` and ``options`` sections into a dictionary.
+
+
+.. code-block:: python
+
+ from setuptools.config import read_configuration
+
+ conf_dict = read_configuration('/home/user/dev/package/setup.cfg')
+
+
+By default, ``read_configuration()`` will read only the file provided
+in the first argument. To include values from other configuration files
+which could be in various places, set the ``find_others`` keyword argument
+to ``True``.
+
+If you have only a configuration file but not the whole package, you can still
+try to get data out of it with the help of the ``ignore_option_errors`` keyword
+argument. When it is set to ``True``, all options with errors possibly produced
+by directives, such as ``attr:`` and others, will be silently ignored.
+As a consequence, the resulting dictionary will include no such options.
+
+
+--------------------------------
+Extending and Reusing Setuptools
+--------------------------------
+
+Creating ``distutils`` Extensions
+=================================
+
+It can be hard to add new commands or setup arguments to the distutils. But
+the ``setuptools`` package makes it a bit easier, by allowing you to distribute
+a distutils extension as a separate project, and then have projects that need
+the extension just refer to it in their ``setup_requires`` argument.
+
+With ``setuptools``, your distutils extension projects can hook in new
+commands and ``setup()`` arguments just by defining "entry points". These
+are mappings from command or argument names to a specification of where to
+import a handler from. (See the section on `Dynamic Discovery of Services and
+Plugins`_ above for some more background on entry points.)
+
+
+Adding Commands
+---------------
+
+You can add new ``setup`` commands by defining entry points in the
+``distutils.commands`` group. For example, if you wanted to add a ``foo``
+command, you might add something like this to your distutils extension
+project's setup script::
+
+ setup(
+ # ...
+ entry_points={
+ "distutils.commands": [
+ "foo = mypackage.some_module:foo",
+ ],
+ },
+ )
+
+(Assuming, of course, that the ``foo`` class in ``mypackage.some_module`` is
+a ``setuptools.Command`` subclass.)
+
+Once a project containing such entry points has been activated on ``sys.path``,
+(e.g. by running "install" or "develop" with a site-packages installation
+directory) the command(s) will be available to any ``setuptools``-based setup
+scripts. It is not necessary to use the ``--command-packages`` option or
+to monkeypatch the ``distutils.command`` package to install your commands;
+``setuptools`` automatically adds a wrapper to the distutils to search for
+entry points in the active distributions on ``sys.path``. In fact, this is
+how setuptools' own commands are installed: the setuptools project's setup
+script defines entry points for them!
+
+
+Adding ``setup()`` Arguments
+----------------------------
+
+Sometimes, your commands may need additional arguments to the ``setup()``
+call. You can enable this by defining entry points in the
+``distutils.setup_keywords`` group. For example, if you wanted a ``setup()``
+argument called ``bar_baz``, you might add something like this to your
+distutils extension project's setup script::
+
+ setup(
+ # ...
+ entry_points={
+ "distutils.commands": [
+ "foo = mypackage.some_module:foo",
+ ],
+ "distutils.setup_keywords": [
+ "bar_baz = mypackage.some_module:validate_bar_baz",
+ ],
+ },
+ )
+
+The idea here is that the entry point defines a function that will be called
+to validate the ``setup()`` argument, if it's supplied. The ``Distribution``
+object will have the initial value of the attribute set to ``None``, and the
+validation function will only be called if the ``setup()`` call sets it to
+a non-None value. Here's an example validation function::
+
+ def assert_bool(dist, attr, value):
+ """Verify that value is True, False, 0, or 1"""
+ if bool(value) != value:
+ raise DistutilsSetupError(
+ "%r must be a boolean value (got %r)" % (attr,value)
+ )
+
+Your function should accept three arguments: the ``Distribution`` object,
+the attribute name, and the attribute value. It should raise a
+``DistutilsSetupError`` (from the ``distutils.errors`` module) if the argument
+is invalid. Remember, your function will only be called with non-None values,
+and the default value of arguments defined this way is always None. So, your
+commands should always be prepared for the possibility that the attribute will
+be ``None`` when they access it later.
+
+If more than one active distribution defines an entry point for the same
+``setup()`` argument, *all* of them will be called. This allows multiple
+distutils extensions to define a common argument, as long as they agree on
+what values of that argument are valid.
+
+Also note that as with commands, it is not necessary to subclass or monkeypatch
+the distutils ``Distribution`` class in order to add your arguments; it is
+sufficient to define the entry points in your extension, as long as any setup
+script using your extension lists your project in its ``setup_requires``
+argument.
+
+
+Adding new EGG-INFO Files
+-------------------------
+
+Some extensible applications or frameworks may want to allow third parties to
+develop plugins with application or framework-specific metadata included in
+the plugins' EGG-INFO directory, for easy access via the ``pkg_resources``
+metadata API. The easiest way to allow this is to create a distutils extension
+to be used from the plugin projects' setup scripts (via ``setup_requires``)
+that defines a new setup keyword, and then uses that data to write an EGG-INFO
+file when the ``egg_info`` command is run.
+
+The ``egg_info`` command looks for extension points in an ``egg_info.writers``
+group, and calls them to write the files. Here's a simple example of a
+distutils extension defining a setup argument ``foo_bar``, which is a list of
+lines that will be written to ``foo_bar.txt`` in the EGG-INFO directory of any
+project that uses the argument::
+
+ setup(
+ # ...
+ entry_points={
+ "distutils.setup_keywords": [
+ "foo_bar = setuptools.dist:assert_string_list",
+ ],
+ "egg_info.writers": [
+ "foo_bar.txt = setuptools.command.egg_info:write_arg",
+ ],
+ },
+ )
+
+This simple example makes use of two utility functions defined by setuptools
+for its own use: a routine to validate that a setup keyword is a sequence of
+strings, and another one that looks up a setup argument and writes it to
+a file. Here's what the writer utility looks like::
+
+ def write_arg(cmd, basename, filename):
+ argname = os.path.splitext(basename)[0]
+ value = getattr(cmd.distribution, argname, None)
+ if value is not None:
+ value = '\n'.join(value) + '\n'
+ cmd.write_or_delete_file(argname, filename, value)
+
+As you can see, ``egg_info.writers`` entry points must be a function taking
+three arguments: a ``egg_info`` command instance, the basename of the file to
+write (e.g. ``foo_bar.txt``), and the actual full filename that should be
+written to.
+
+In general, writer functions should honor the command object's ``dry_run``
+setting when writing files, and use the ``distutils.log`` object to do any
+console output. The easiest way to conform to this requirement is to use
+the ``cmd`` object's ``write_file()``, ``delete_file()``, and
+``write_or_delete_file()`` methods exclusively for your file operations. See
+those methods' docstrings for more details.
+
+
+Adding Support for Revision Control Systems
+-------------------------------------------------
+
+If the files you want to include in the source distribution are tracked using
+Git, Mercurial or SVN, you can use the following packages to achieve that:
+
+- Git and Mercurial: `setuptools_scm <https://pypi.org/project/setuptools_scm/>`_
+- SVN: `setuptools_svn <https://pypi.org/project/setuptools_svn/>`_
+
+If you would like to create a plugin for ``setuptools`` to find files tracked
+by another revision control system, you can do so by adding an entry point to
+the ``setuptools.file_finders`` group. The entry point should be a function
+accepting a single directory name, and should yield all the filenames within
+that directory (and any subdirectories thereof) that are under revision
+control.
+
+For example, if you were going to create a plugin for a revision control system
+called "foobar", you would write a function something like this:
+
+.. code-block:: python
+
+ def find_files_for_foobar(dirname):
+ # loop to yield paths that start with `dirname`
+
+And you would register it in a setup script using something like this::
+
+ entry_points={
+ "setuptools.file_finders": [
+ "foobar = my_foobar_module:find_files_for_foobar",
+ ]
+ }
+
+Then, anyone who wants to use your plugin can simply install it, and their
+local setuptools installation will be able to find the necessary files.
+
+It is not necessary to distribute source control plugins with projects that
+simply use the other source control system, or to specify the plugins in
+``setup_requires``. When you create a source distribution with the ``sdist``
+command, setuptools automatically records what files were found in the
+``SOURCES.txt`` file. That way, recipients of source distributions don't need
+to have revision control at all. However, if someone is working on a package
+by checking out with that system, they will need the same plugin(s) that the
+original author is using.
+
+A few important points for writing revision control file finders:
+
+* Your finder function MUST return relative paths, created by appending to the
+ passed-in directory name. Absolute paths are NOT allowed, nor are relative
+ paths that reference a parent directory of the passed-in directory.
+
+* Your finder function MUST accept an empty string as the directory name,
+ meaning the current directory. You MUST NOT convert this to a dot; just
+ yield relative paths. So, yielding a subdirectory named ``some/dir`` under
+ the current directory should NOT be rendered as ``./some/dir`` or
+ ``/somewhere/some/dir``, but *always* as simply ``some/dir``
+
+* Your finder function SHOULD NOT raise any errors, and SHOULD deal gracefully
+ with the absence of needed programs (i.e., ones belonging to the revision
+ control system itself. It *may*, however, use ``distutils.log.warn()`` to
+ inform the user of the missing program(s).
+
+
+Subclassing ``Command``
+-----------------------
+
+Sorry, this section isn't written yet, and neither is a lot of what's below
+this point.
+
+XXX
+
+
+Reusing ``setuptools`` Code
+===========================
+
+``ez_setup``
+------------
+
+XXX
+
+
+``setuptools.archive_util``
+---------------------------
+
+XXX
+
+
+``setuptools.sandbox``
+----------------------
+
+XXX
+
+
+``setuptools.package_index``
+----------------------------
+
+XXX
+
+
+Mailing List and Bug Tracker
+============================
+
+Please use the `distutils-sig mailing list`_ for questions and discussion about
+setuptools, and the `setuptools bug tracker`_ ONLY for issues you have
+confirmed via the list are actual bugs, and which you have reduced to a minimal
+set of steps to reproduce.
+
+.. _distutils-sig mailing list: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/distutils-sig/
+.. _setuptools bug tracker: https://github.com/pypa/setuptools/