Clarify relation to setuptools

[akhmerov]

Miniver imports setuptools, and therefore may fail in some environments. Is this intentional? Should packages using miniver have setuptools as a requirement?

[jbweston]

Hi Anton,

The only reason setuptools is used is because this is the Python packaging stack that I am most familiar with.
I was under the impression that the major Python distributions all ship with setuptools (even if it is not part of the standard library); could you elaborate on what environments you had in mind?

My understanding of newer technologies like Poetry is that they make extensive use of pyproject.toml to specify version metadata. I am not sure how this would interact with the need to dynamically obtain the version info from git.

[akhmerov]

Hey Joe, thanks for the explanation!

I rather meant this as a point for miniver users, and as as a suggestion to write in the README what the users need to specify for the package to be miniver-compatible.

Regarding your last remark, there's seemingly https://pypi.org/project/poetry-dynamic-versioning/ (despite what the readme says, poetry will support plugins in the next version).