Commit 9b2e1b34 authored by Jason Madden's avatar Jason Madden

Document the 'ValueError' message that's raised by ancient setuptools. Ref #1223 #1234.

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packages.
- Installing from source requires ``setuptools``. This is installed
automatically in virtual environments and by buildout. However, gevent uses
:pep:`496` environment markers in ``setup.py``. Consequently, you'll
need a version of setuptools newer than 25 (mid 2016) to install
gevent from source. Older versions of pipenv may also `have issues
installing gevent for this reason
automatically in virtual environments and by buildout. However,
gevent uses :pep:`496` environment markers in ``setup.py``.
Consequently, you'll need a version of setuptools newer than 25
(mid 2016) to install gevent from source; a version that's too old
will produce a ``ValueError``. Older versions of pipenv may also
`have issues installing gevent for this reason
<https://github.com/pypa/pipenv/issues/2113>`_.
- To build the libuv backend (which is required on Windows and
......@@ -113,6 +114,12 @@ those compiling gevent from source.
<http://www.gevent.org/whatsnew_1_1.html#operating-systems-label>`_
for more information.
- If you see ``ValueError: ("Expected ',' or end-of-list in", "cffi >=
1.11.5 ; sys_platform == 'win32' and platform_python_implementation
== 'CPython'", 'at', " ; sys_platform == 'win32' and
platform_python_implementation == 'CPython'")``, the version of
setuptools is too old. Install a more recent version of setuptools.
Extra Dependencies
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