Why is

setuptools

a Kedro dependency? It gets ignored when I piptools compile a

<http://requirements.in|requirements.in>

that contains kedro because setuptools is “considered to be unsafe in a requirements file”

it’s to enable the

kedro package

command

Is it the same/similar with

pip-tools

?

I’m not sure I’m following, one setuptools is a dependency of Kedro as a library. It’s your choice if you include it in your project and respective compiled requirements.

Sorry I meant whether

pip-tools

is also a dependency of Kedro for the same reason (to enable kedro package)

oh no

Okay thanks. I don’t think there is a clear choice to exclude setuptools when I install kedro though. If I

pip install kedro

, it will always try to install/update setuptools unless the requirement is already satisfied. Would be great to have it separated from the core dependencies and become something like

kedro[package]

. It can be a surprise to have things like

wheel

,

setuptools

or

pip

updated when a package is installed.

I think there is a good argument for this, amazingly it’s never been raised

Yes I will. Thanks for the discussion 😄

hi! @Zirui Xu did you end up opening an issue? otherwise I can do it 😊

Thanks for the reminder @Juan Luis. Raised one here https://github.com/kedro-org/kedro/issues/2350

Thanks! Duly noted