Python generators: Add setuptools dependency for console_script entry points

[hroncok]

Almost no upstream specifies setuptools in install_requires. I guess that it is pretty straight forward upstream that if you pip install stuff, you already got setuptools installed.

However, the console_scripts entry points are de-facto standard now and they import from pkg_resources (part of setuptools).

Packages with console_scripts entry points need setuptools on runtime.

It is possible to see console_scripts entry points metadata and hence it is possible to require setuptools for packages with entry_points.

Example: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/python-devel@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/YR6OG5CULN42R5FPKHWUASEGDWMABC5K/

[hroncok]

Example metadata:

$ cat %{buildroot}%{python3_sitelib}/fedpkg-1.36-py3.7.egg-info/entry_points.txt 
[console_scripts]
fedpkg = fedpkg.__main__:main
fedpkg-stage = fedpkg.__main__:main

Other possibility:

$ grep EASY-INSTALL-ENTRY-SCRIPT %{buildroot}%{bindir}/*
# EASY-INSTALL-ENTRY-SCRIPT: 'fedpkg==1.36','console_scripts','fedpkg'

[ignatenkobrain]

is it possible knowing that using pkg_resources API?

[hroncok]

Yes, working on it.