[Distutils] dependencies, pip and non-PyPI-hosted packages

[Tres Seaver]

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On 04/26/2011 12:02 PM, Ernesto Posse wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 3:12 PM, Carl Meyer <carl at oddbird.net> wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 04/23/2011 02:00 PM, P.J. Eby wrote:
>>> At 04:54 PM 4/22/2011 -0500, Carl Meyer wrote:
>>>> No, it is calling the distribute setup. If you look at how your package
>>>> is installed, you'll find it in an egg - that's a sure sign of
>>>> setuptools/distribute. It's just that "python setup.py install" does not
>>>> handle dependencies, even with setuptools/distribute.
>>>
>>> Uh, yes it does, actually.  (At least with setuptools, it does; don't
>>> know about distribute.)
>>
>> Erp. Yeah, you're right; just verified that it works fine with both
>> setuptools and distribute. Dunno where I got that idea.
>>
>> Carl
> 
> 
> I'm confused now. I have tried both with setuptools alone (using
> ez_setup.py instead of distribute_setup.py) and distribute, and it
> doesn't work with distribute alone for me: it doesn't install the
> dependencies and gives me those warnings about 'install_requires' not
> being recognized.
> 
> Any ideas about what could be wrong?

How are you invoking setup?  Should be something like:

  from setuptools import setup

  setup(name='your.package',
        ...
        install_requires=['other.packaage'],
       )


Tres.
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