On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 4:13 PM, Tres Seaver <tsea...@palladion.com> wrote: > > I don't see the point of the 'setup_requires' bit: if you are working in > a checkout, you should be using 'python setup.py develop', which Just > Works(TM) without 'setuptools-git'. 'setuptools-git' really only matters > for the *maintainers*, who need to ensure that the non-Python files get > bundled in when they run 'python setup.py sdist' to make a release (we > could subclass the distutils 'sdist' command to barf in the absence of > 'setuptools-git', but That-Way-Lies-Madness). >
Yeah, I see that now. But before I did see that, I tried including deform via a dependency_link in my setup.py . Doing that, it fetches the git repo and tries to install via bdist, thus ending up with a non-functional package and it not really being clear as to why. (The first post shows a smallest-possible-code to demonstrate that) I totally agree with you, Merickel, and everyone else that people should be either using the PyPi package or installing via a "setup.py develop". However, most people will probably arrive at this discussion making the same mistakes I did and only after a lot of searching and wasted time. The patch is to try to avoid other people wasting time the same way I did. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "pylons-discuss" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to pylons-discuss+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to pylons-discuss@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/pylons-discuss. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
