[Distutils] setuptools dependency_links in dependent packages

[Tres Seaver]

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Phillip J. Eby wrote:
> At 11:40 AM 11/26/2007 -0500, Kevin Dangoor wrote:
>> I just tried installing one of the many, cool, interrelated zc.* 
>> packages, zc.authorizedotnet.
>>
>> That package depends on zc.ssl. zc.ssl has the following in setup.py:
>>
>>
>> dependency_links = 
>> ['<http://download.zope.org/distribution/>http://download.zope.org/distribution/'],
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Running easy_install zc.authorizedotnet fails because it doesn't 
>> have that entry, and the installation of zc.ssl does not pick it up. 
>> Installing zc.ssl *and then* zc.authorizedotnet works fine.
>>
>> I'd call that a bug, because zc.authorizedotnet should not need to 
>> know that one of its required packages has a special home for its code.
> 
> I must confess I don't even understand what you're saying is 
> happening.  Could you explain at least what you mean by "fails" and 
> "does not pick it up"?  The console output from the commands (and the 
> steps to reproduce it) would also be helpful.

I read the report as saying that 'dependency_links' mentioned by
distributions satisfying user-specified requirements were consulted, but
that those mentioned by dependencies of those distributions were ignored.



Tres.
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