[Distutils] egg_info needs to hit the net?

[Phillip J. Eby]

At 09:20 PM 10/16/2005 -0400, Kevin Dangoor wrote:
>On 10/16/05, Phillip J. Eby <pje at telecommunity.com> wrote:
> > At 07:56 PM 10/16/2005 -0400, Kevin Dangoor wrote:
> > >TurboGears quickstart now does an "egg_info" on the newly-created
> > >project. Someone just reported that he got a "Connection Refused"
> > >exception and was reasonably wondering why it needed to hit the net in
> > >order to start a new project.
> >
> > It's not egg_info that's the problem.  The issue is running a setup.py that
> > has a 'setup_requires' argument.  If the required thing isn't installed,
> > then setup.py goes looking for it.  It just so happens in this case that
> > 'egg_info' is the command, but you could've run 'setup.py --help' and the
> > same thing would happen.  You should make sure that tg-admin quickstart
> > installs any setup_requires targets that are in the quickstart template, or
> > else this will happen with every new project.
>
>I believe TurboGears itself has the same setup_requires. Wouldn't
>installing TurboGears itself get you the required package?

setup_requires never causes anything to be *installed* on the target 
system.  It's just downloaded to the project directory so the setup script 
can use it.  It sounds like you need to also list it in TurboGears' 
"install_requires" in this case.  Then it'll be installed on the system, 
and new projects won't need to download it.