I'm working on a project that I'd like to split into multiple separately installable components. The main component is a command-line tool without any external dependencies. Another component is a GUI frontend that adds some third-party dependencies.
Therefore, I'd like to distribute the code in a single source package, but separate binary packages (so users can install only what they actually need).

I couldn't find any obvious way to support such a scenario with either `distutils` nor `setuptools`. Is there an easy solution to this ? (I'm currently thinking of adding two `setup()` calls to my `setup.py` script. That would then call all commands twice, so I'd need to override the `sdist` command to only build a single (joint) source package.
Is there a better way to achieve what I want ?

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Yes. Depending on the answer to my question(s), the request either becomes: "please add support for this use-case", or "this use-case isn't documented properly", i.e. a feature request or a bug report. You choose. :-)

The way to achieve this is to make sure your two components live in two separate directories, each with its setup.py.

This is the simple way that works with distutils/setuptools and pip install-from-vcs (you can install from a subdir of a repo).