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