On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 11:31:46AM -0700, Thatcher Peskens wrote:

I've been looking for information on this topic, but cannot really find anything about it.. It looks like setuptools has changed something that breaks a bunch of my installs (last deployed months ago) that were working before.

I don't believe anything major changed in setuptools itself, but pip 1.4 changed behavior and stopped installing unreleased package versions by default.

I have some dependencies on a python package A* which is not available in PyPi, which itself has dependencies not available on PyPi.

A has a setup.py containing:

install_requires=[ 'django-inline-edit', ]

and

dependency_links = [ 'http://github.com/gabrielgrant/django-inline-edit/tarball/master#egg=django-...', ]

Now... This doesn't work anymore, where it used to work before.

I have found that if I specify the install_requires with an explicit version e.g. django-inline-edit==dev AND the dependency_link with #egg=django-inline-edit-dev it does work.

Sounds like the pip change.

My previous experience shows that it was working without the explicit version before, and what I find on the internet also seem to suggest it should work. Has this been changed on purpose, or should it be reported as a bug?

It was on purpose. Marius Gedminas -- Gates' Law: Every 18 months, the speed of software halves.