Distribution should include setup_requires details in metadata

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Originally reported by: jaraco (Bitbucket: jaraco, GitHub: jaraco)

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This issue is inspired by Pull Request 62, in which the author expresses the desire to have setup_requires metadata stored with the Distribution.

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• Bitbucket: https://bitbucket.org/pypa/setuptools/issue/239

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Original comment by jaraco (Bitbucket: jaraco, GitHub: jaraco):

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Include setup_requires directive in Distribution attributes and metadata. Fixes #239.

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Original comment by dzen (Bitbucket: dzen, GitHub: dzen):

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The need here is larger than just storing the setup_requires, and It's linked to the pep 426.

People packaging python module on debian, or gentoo, or whatever would like to get a lots of informations from the python's package as the short|long description, etc , to get it a little bit automatised. It's a hard work, and providing those kind of solution may help people doing some "devops" to automatize packaging.

Thanks for taking care of this.

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Original comment by dzen (Bitbucket: dzen, GitHub: dzen):

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you just did a typo :p

https://bitbucket.org/pypa/setuptools/src/c95d2e0b6e415c2268e2984c8ddf00184fb53a85/setup.py#cl-147

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Original comment by jaraco (Bitbucket: jaraco, GitHub: jaraco):

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Drat. Okay. I'll fix that later today.

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Original comment by jaraco (Bitbucket: jaraco, GitHub: jaraco):

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Fix typo; ref #239.

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Original comment by jaraco (Bitbucket: jaraco, GitHub: jaraco):

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See #352 for the effort to store the setup_requires in metadata.