Hi all, Do we know of any tool that can, given the name of one or more packages, follow dependency chains and produce a list of packages in the order they need to be installed, assuming every package needed will be built from source?
Running "pip download --no-binary :all: ipython" gets me a set of sdists to be installed, but I lose any information about the order. I assume some packages will fail to build if their dependencies are not installed first, so the order is significant. Pip appears to keep track of the ordering internally: if I run "pip install --no-binary :all: ipython", all the dependencies are downloaded, and then the collected packages are installed starting from those with no dependencies and finishing with the package I requested. But I don't know of any way to get this information out of pip. Is there an option that I'm overlooking? Or some other tool that can do this? The use case I'm thinking about is to automatically generate instructions for a build system which separates the downloading and installing steps, so for each step it expects one or more URLs to download, along with instructions for how to install that piece. The installation steps shouldn't download further data. I could work around the issue by telling it to download all the sdists in a single step and then install in one shot with --no-index and --find-links. But it's more elegant - and better for caching - if we can install each package as a single step. Thanks, Thomas -- Distutils-SIG mailing list -- distutils-sig@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to distutils-sig-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mm3/mailman3/lists/distutils-sig.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/mm3/archives/list/distutils-sig@python.org/message/LGTH3IYBMVKBS4PYGFJ6A7N5GW5ZKFUY/
