On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 8:07 PM, Daniel Holth
On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 1:10 PM, Erik Bernoth
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.
From your mail I would interprete that distutils actually should consider
Hi Daniel, I also tried ``pip install monk_tf-v0.1.1.tar.gz``, with the same result as using setup.py directly. He installs it but doesn't consider the "requires" list. the required packages? Maybe I just wrote something incorrectly. Does the following look like a correct statements of the requires parameter? -------------------------------------------------------------- [...] package_dir = { '' : src_path }, requires = [ 'pylibssh2 (==1.0.1)', 'pyserial (==2.5)' ],provides = [ '{} ({})'.format(project, version) ] [...] -------------------------------------------------------------- Cheers Erik