setuptools is needed to provide pkg_resources

[AdrienPensart]

setuptools seems to be needed in order to provide pkg_resources, this PR will fix that, so users don't need to add setuptools themselves.

[dbrgn]

Hm, the requirement on setuptools is defined inside the call to setuptools.setup. Will this really help?

[Bilbottom]

This also impacts me so I'm in favour of this PR

I use Poetry for package management and installing the dependencies doesn't include setuptools, presumably because Poetry uses a different build backend

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• Operating system: Windows 10
• Python version: 3.11.5
• coverage-badge version: 1.1.1
• Poetry version: 1.8.0
  • Build backend: poetry.core.masonry.api

[dbrgn]

Again: The requirement on setuptools is defined inside the call to setuptools.setup. Will this really help?

To me, it looks like the PR won't actually solve the issue.

[Bilbottom]

Again: The requirement on setuptools is defined inside the call to setuptools.setup. Will this really help?

To me, it looks like the PR won't actually solve the issue.

From what I can see, the setuptools package isn't defined as a requirement in the setup call -- that's what this PR is going to do 😅

In my case, Poetry doesn't need setuptools so it won't install it unless it's explicitly added as a dependency:

I've "fixed" my downstream repos by adding setuptools as a dependency, but since this project assumes that setuptools is available inside the source code, this PR would ensure that setuptools exists regardless of how the package is installed by its users 🙂

[dbrgn]

Ah, so I guess some tools don't actually evaluate the script, but will instead have their own pseudo-setuptools implementation.

I guess it doesn't hurt to include it, so I'll merge this.