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As a bonus, if you are\nusing Python's standard distutils, SetupHelper provides (very\nbasic!) support for the ``requires`` keyword, downloading and\ninstalling required packages for you, as long as their download\nURLs are available on PyPI. (You can also specify a local\ndirectory as a \"repository\" by setting the environment\nvariable ``PYPI_LOCAL`` to point to it--see the ``CHANGES``\nfile in the source archive for details.) This functionality\ncurrently does *not* support version specifiers after the\npackage name (unless you are using setuptools, which does\nallow this--see below).\n\n(Note that the Python 2.5 and later distutils package allows\nthe ``requires`` keyword in distribution metadata, but does\nnot actually use it to install anything for you. Of course\nsome distutils replacements like setuptools do provide this\nfunctionality; if you are using setuptools, you can set the\nvariable ``__distutils_pkg__`` to ``'setuptools'`` and\nSetupHelper will use setuptools' support instead of its own,\nwhich has some additional features, such as allowing version\nspecifiers for required packages. SetupHelper also adds the\n``requires``, ``provides``, and ``obsoletes`` keywords to\nyour package metadata when you use the ``setup.py register``\ncommand with Python versions < 2.5; in other words, it gives\nyou support for metadata version 1.1 even if your Python\nversion doesn't.)\n\nSince SetupHelper has all the information needed to determine\nwhat should be in your source or binary distribution files,\nit auto-generates ``MANIFEST.in`` each time it runs, so you don't\nhave to maintain your ``MANIFEST.in`` file manually (and if you\ndid, it would get overwritten anyway). Even though it is not\nstrictly necessary to write ``MANIFEST.in`` unless you are running\na distribution command, SetupHelper does it every time because\nchecking its output can often help you debug problems with the\nvariable definitions in your setup script. (At least, it has\ncertainly helped *me* to do that!)\n\nUsing SetupHelper as an Installer\n---------------------------------\n\nThis distribution includes a script, ``setuphelper``, that you\ncan use to leverage SetupHelper's ``requires`` keyword support\nto use it as an installer. Command line arguments to the\nscript are treated as a list of requirements to be installed,\nand the script uses SetupHelper to download and install them,\njust as if they were listed in a ``setup.py`` script. If you\nwant to use setuptools' ``easy_install`` support with this\ntechnique, use the command line option ``--use-setuptools``\n(short form ``-s``).\n\nSince this script uses the ``requires`` keyword functionality\nin SetupHelper, it has the limitation noted above, that no\nversion specifiers can currently be used after package names.\n\nPost-Install Script Support\n---------------------------\n\nAs one other bonus, SetupHelper allows you to automate the\nrunning of post-install scripts; just set the ``__post_install__``\nvariable in your ``setup.py`` to a list of script names to be run\nfrom a subshell (this is done using ``os.system``, so it has the\nlimitations of that Python command). It is desirable to allow\npost-install scripts to be run from ``setup.py`` so that SetupHelper\ncan ensure that any required packages are fully installed by\njust calling ``python setup.py install`` on them once they are\nunpacked. 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