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diff --git a/docs/userguide/extension.rst b/docs/userguide/extension.rst index 93b59501..d74ca3fe 100644 --- a/docs/userguide/extension.rst +++ b/docs/userguide/extension.rst @@ -45,6 +45,14 @@ entry points in the active distributions on ``sys.path``. In fact, this is how setuptools' own commands are installed: the setuptools project's setup script defines entry points for them! +.. note:: + When creating commands, and specially when defining custom ways of building + compiled extensions (for example via ``build_ext``), consider + handling exceptions such as ``CompileError``, ``LinkError``, ``LibError``, + among others. These exceptions are available in the ``setuptools.errors`` + module. + + Adding ``setup()`` Arguments ---------------------------- |