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| author | Anderson Bravalheri <andersonbravalheri@gmail.com> | 2021-11-05 19:03:05 +0000 |
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| committer | Anderson Bravalheri <andersonbravalheri@gmail.com> | 2021-11-05 19:19:20 +0000 |
| commit | eca0111c29721056e8af7ac0d08d5f678fe7473e (patch) | |
| tree | 1d85e5d70c21db244cd2e6fa85a82984e96217b8 /docs/userguide | |
| parent | 974dbb03769a500c5077d37291817f30359a0d7b (diff) | |
| download | python-setuptools-git-eca0111c29721056e8af7ac0d08d5f678fe7473e.tar.gz | |
Document setuptools replacements
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diff --git a/docs/userguide/extension.rst b/docs/userguide/extension.rst index 93b59501..966c6fde 100644 --- a/docs/userguide/extension.rst +++ b/docs/userguide/extension.rst @@ -45,6 +45,14 @@ 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! +.. note:: + When creating commands, and specially when defining custom ways of building + compiled extensions (for example via ``build_ext``), you might want to + handle exceptions such as ``CompileError``, ``LinkError``, ``LibError``, + among others. These exceptions are available in the ``setuptools.errors`` + module. + + Adding ``setup()`` Arguments ---------------------------- |