On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 1:10 PM, Erik Bernoth <erik.bern...@gmail.com>wrote:
> Hi everybody, > > I think I pretty much read all of the http://docs.python.org/2/distutils/and > started to create a pypi repository for my project ( > http://pypi.python.org/pypi/monk_tf). Now there are some things that are > not so clear from the documentation, with the most important being > requirement handling. > > I have the same requirements written down in two ways: > a) a requirements.txt file, which can be called with pip install -r > requirements.txt. Yet I don't see any user downloading a requirements.txt > file from somewhere, then installing it and only then afterwards getting > started with actually installing the package they want to install. Who > would do that? > > b) requires attribute in the setup function call in setup.py. For some > reason pip completely seems to ignore it. I tested the following way (come > along with the code from https://github.com/DFE/MONK, if you like): > > $ cd MONK > $ python setup.py sdist > $ cd dist > $ tar xfvz monk_tf-v0.1.1.tar.gz > $ cd monk_tf-v0.1.1 > $ python setup.py install > running install > running build > running build_py > running install_lib > running install_egg_info > Writing /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/monk_tf-v0.1.1.egg-info > $python > >> import monk_tf > (Exception, because a required package can't be found) > > So this also didn't seem to install any of the required packages. > > I'd really like to know, what I am doing wrong here. Anybody ideas or > suggestions? Is there another way to tell distutils about the packages that > should be installed before my package is installed? > > Cheers > Erik > Generally requires.txt is for specific versions of dependencies and the setup.py list is more permissive. Try using pip to install your sdist instead of running setup.py directly.
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