[Distutils] setup.py --install-requires?

[Sridhar Ratnakumar]

On 08/04/09 02:53 PM, P.J. Eby wrote:
> Something like this should do the trick:
>
> import tempfile, os.path
> from setuptools.sandbox import run_setup
>
> def get_requires(setup_dir, empty_tmpdir):
>      tmpdir = tempfile.mkdtemp(prefix="egginfotmp-")
>      run_setup(os.path.join(setup_dir,'setup.py'), ['-e', tmpdir])
>      for dist in pkg_resources.find_distributions(tmpdir, True):
>          return dist.requires()
>      else:
>          raise RuntimeError("egg_info didn't work")

That doesn't look like very reliable. It failed with both zc.catalog[1] 
and pip[2].


[1] error: option -e not recognized
[2] IOError: No such file or directory: 'pip-0.3.1/docs/index.txt'