The setup.py uses the version, author and others attributes as metadata
for the python package.
The setup read them from offlineimap/__init__.py doing an import of the
module first.
Unfortunately the import also try to import all the dependencies of
offlineimap which may not be installed by the time. See #661.
Moving out the attributes in a separated module allows to be imported by
setup.py whitout needing to import the whole offlineimap.
The import of test.OLItest has the same limitation. In this case the
import was delayed until the real test case run is executed avoiding
again loading offlineimap from the begin.
Signed-off-by: Martin Di Paola <martinp.dipaola@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Sebrecht <nicolas.s-dev@laposte.net>
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