[Distutils] bundling packages with setuptools?

[Kevin Dangoor]

(readding distutils-sig which I accidentally dropped)

On 1/16/06, Christopher Fonnesbeck <chris at trichech.us> wrote:
> On Jan 16, 2006, at 11:54 AM, Kevin Dangoor wrote:
>
> > Yes. This is something setuptools does quite admirably. This is in the
> > setup.py for TurboGears:
> >
> >     install_requires = ["TurboKid >= 0.9.0",
> >         "CherryPy > 2.1.1",
> >         "SQLObject >= 0.7.1dev_r1457", "simplejson >= 1.1",
> >         "elementtree >= 1.2.6", "PasteScript >= 0.4.1",
> >         "cElementTree >= 1.0.2", "FormEncode >= 0.4",
> >         "setuptools >= 0.6a8",
> >         "RuleDispatch"],
> >
> > Running easy_install on the TurboGears package will go and fetch all
> > of those pre-requisites.
> >
> > So, easy_install is the installer, and your egg includes the metadata
> > about which packages it needs.
>
> This is what I was hoping. What about URLs? The packages dont have to
> be in the cheese shop, do they?

Nope. TurboGears uses some packages that aren't in the Cheeseshop. You
can use the -f/--find-links option to tell easy_install where to look.
You can see the TurboGears installation instructions to see the full
process:

http://www.turbogears.org/download/index.html

Generally, pretty easy. If you have all of the eggs available on your
local machine, you can also have setuptools run with those eggs.

Kevin