It's being used by setup.py, and if it's absent it fails to build like so:
Collecting platformshconfig (from -r requirements.pinned.txt (line 17))
Downloading https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/b1/a2/92d625da9b0a4c29bc096c0ebe3fd0db53cb2ef9f5e4d299329810824d4f/platformshconfig-2.3.1.tar.gz
Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
File "/tmp/pip-build-_tVzDp/platformshconfig/setup.py", line 20, in <module>
with open('CHANGELOG.md', 'r', encoding='utf-8') as f:
File "/opt/python/2.7/lib/python2.7/codecs.py", line 898, in open
file = __builtin__.open(filename, mode, buffering)
IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'CHANGELOG.md'
----------------------------------------
W: Command "python setup.py egg_info" failed with error code 1 in /tmp/pip-build-_tVzDp/platformshconfig/
It's being used by
setup.py
, and if it's absent it fails to build like so: