prevent building archives when no VCS repo is there about setuptools_scm HOT 5 CLOSED

→ python setup.py egg_info
important note:

the setup of setuptools_scm is self-using,
the first execution of `python setup.py egg_info`
will generate partial data
its critical to run `python setup.py egg_info`
once before running sdist or easy_install on a fresh checkouts

pip usage is recommended

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "setup.py", line 113, in <module>
    setuptools.setup(**arguments)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/distutils/core.py", line 112, in setup
    _setup_distribution = dist = klass(attrs)
  File "/tmp/pawesome/venv/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/setuptools/dist.py", line 272, in __init__
    _Distribution.__init__(self,attrs)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/distutils/dist.py", line 287, in __init__
    self.finalize_options()
  File "/tmp/pawesome/venv/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/setuptools/dist.py", line 327, in finalize_options
    ep.load()(self, ep.name, value)
  File "/tmp/pawesome/venv/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 2355, in load
    return self.resolve()
  File "/tmp/pawesome/venv/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 2365, in resolve
    raise ImportError(str(exc))
ImportError: 'module' object has no attribute 'setuptools_version_keyword'