On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 12:53 PM, Darren Dale <dsdal...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 1:19 PM, Ian Bicking <i...@colorstudy.com> wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 7:27 AM, Olemis Lang <ole...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> My experience is that only `install_requires` is needed (unless you > >> want to create app bundles AFAICR) , but in practice I've noticed that > >> *some* easy_installable packages are not pip-able (though I had no > >> time to figure out why :-/ ) > > > > Usually this is because Setuptools is poking at objects to do its > > work, while pip tries to work mostly with subprocesses. Though to > > complicate things a bit, pip makes sure the Setuptools monkeypatches > > to distutils are applied, so that it's always as though the setup.py > > says "from setuptools import setup". easy_install *also* does this. > > > > But then easy_install starts calling methods and whatnot, while pip just > does: > > > > setup.py install --single-version-externally-managed --no-deps > > --record some_tmp_file > > > > The --no-deps keeps Setuptools from resolving dependencies > > Seeking clarification: how can pip recursively install dependencies > *and* keep Setuptools from resolving dependencies? > > Using the --no-deps option to setup.py
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