At 09:44 AM 3/20/2008 -0400, Tres Seaver wrote:
I don't know how to make this requirement compatible with using shared dependencies, except to make it easier for folks to download *all* the requirements, and later install from the local "distribution cache" (a directory full of .zip / .egg / .tgs files). It does turn out to be quite easy to build a PyPI-style "simple" index for such a cache. Your use case would then require:
1. Run some command to fetch the desired package and the transitive closure of its dependencies into a working directory (the cache).
2. Run another command to build an index for that directory.
3. Run 'easy_install', pointing to the local index.
Actually, if someone were to develop a patch for PyPI to do this, we could perhaps have a "display download dependencies" link for eggs shown on PyPI. That way, someone who wants to do a manual download could get a page with links for all the required eggs, and manually download them. (Of course, the other alternative would be for someone to provide an IE-controlling extension to urllib2 so that easy_install wouldn't be proxy-bound on such machines.)