Fix the setuptools command to read the project configuration; closes #144 and #145

CHANGES.rst

@@ -8,6 +8,8 @@ CHANGES
 - Fix Git and Mercurial hooks, issues #88 and #133
 - Fix crashes with Python 3.4 by upgrading dependencies
 - Fix traceback when running tests with Python 2.6
+- Fix the setuptools command ``python setup.py flake8`` to read
+  the project configuration
 
 
 2.1.0 - 2013-10-26
@@ -88,7 +90,7 @@ CHANGES
 - make sure mccabe catches the syntax errors as warnings
 - pep8 upgrade
 - added max_line_length default value
-- added Flake8Command and entry points is setuptools is around
+- added Flake8Command and entry points if setuptools is around
 - using the setuptools console wrapper when available
 
 

flake8/main.py

@@ -122,9 +122,13 @@ class Flake8Command(setuptools.Command):
                 yield "%s.py" % filename
 
     def run(self):
+        # Prepare
+        paths = list(self.distribution_files())
         flake8_style = get_style_guide(config_file=DEFAULT_CONFIG,
+                                       paths=paths,
                                        **self.options_dict)
-        paths = self.distribution_files()
-        report = flake8_style.check_files(paths)
+
+        # Run the checkers
+        report = flake8_style.check_files()
         exit_code = print_report(report, flake8_style)
         raise SystemExit(exit_code > 0)