On 8/7/06, Phillip J. Eby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 08:18 PM 8/4/2006 +0200, =?ISO-8859-2?Q?Micha=B3_Kwiatkowski?= wrote: > >I'm using setuptools interface to fetch packages from PyPI. Version > >requirements work fine, but more sophisticated conditions are needed. > >In particular, I would like to hint setuptools to prefer source > >distributions (tar/subversion/..) over eggs and prefer fetching > >distributions from PyPI over relying on locally installed releases > >(even if version numbers match). Currently my code looks something > >like that: > > > >from setuptools.package_index import PackageIndex > >from pkg_resources import Requirement > > > >pkgindex = PackageIndex() > > Pass an empty search path, e.g. PackageIndex(search_path=[]) > > This will create an index that doesn't include any installed eggs. > > > >path = pkgindex.fetch(Requirement.parse(REQUIREMENTS), > > TMP_DIR, force_scan=True) > > > >According to documentation, setting force_scan to False would inhibit > >checking local filesystem, > > I don't know where you're getting that from. The docstring says: > > """If necessary, or if the `force_scan` flag is set, the requirement is > searched for in the (online) package index as well as the locally > installed packages.""" > > Note the "as well as". Anyway, creating the PackageIndex with search_path > set to an empty list should do what you want, except you also want to pass > 'source=True' to 'fetch()' if you want it to find only source packages.
Works well. Thanks! Cheers, mk -- . o . >> http://joker.linuxstuff.pl << . . o It's easier to get forgiveness for being wrong o o o than forgiveness for being right. _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
