[Distutils] defining requirements on pypi

[Daniel Holth]

Pypi only parses requirements from wheels for display but this doesn't
affect installation.
On Aug 28, 2014 7:49 AM, "Brett Graham" <brettgraham at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I feel like these are stupid questions but I cannot seem to find a
> straight answer.
>
> In brief,
>
> 1) what is egg-info/requires.txt used for?
> 2) how do I properly define requirements for pypi?
>
> The details are:
>
> I'm updating some packages on pypi and am having difficulty defining
> requirements.
>
> One of the packages in question is: pypi.python.org/pypi/jsui
>
> I'm initially defining the requirements in a requirements.txt that then
> gets parsed in setup.py and install_requires gets set to the contents of
> requirements.txt. Some of the output from python setup.py sdist build is
> below. The resulting requires.txt in jsui.egg-info is:
>
> flask
> wsrpc
>
> However, when I upload this to pypi with "python setup.py sdist upload"
> I'm not seeing these requirements listed nor does pip installing the
> package install the requirements.
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
> ==== python setup.py sdist build partial output ====
>
> running sdist
> running egg_info
> writing requirements to jsui.egg-info/requires.txt
> writing jsui.egg-info/PKG-INFO
> writing top-level names to jsui.egg-info/top_level.txt
> writing dependency_links to jsui.egg-info/dependency_links.txt
> reading manifest file 'jsui.egg-info/SOURCES.txt'
> writing manifest file 'jsui.egg-info/SOURCES.txt'
> running check
> warning: check: missing required meta-data: url
>
> creating jsui-0.0.1
> creating jsui-0.0.1/jsui
> creating jsui-0.0.1/jsui.egg-info
> making hard links in jsui-0.0.1...
> hard linking README -> jsui-0.0.1
> hard linking setup.py -> jsui-0.0.1
> hard linking jsui/__init__.py -> jsui-0.0.1/jsui
> hard linking jsui/serve.py -> jsui-0.0.1/jsui
> hard linking jsui.egg-info/PKG-INFO -> jsui-0.0.1/jsui.egg-info
> hard linking jsui.egg-info/SOURCES.txt -> jsui-0.0.1/jsui.egg-info
> hard linking jsui.egg-info/dependency_links.txt -> jsui-0.0.1/jsui.egg-info
> hard linking jsui.egg-info/requires.txt -> jsui-0.0.1/jsui.egg-info
> hard linking jsui.egg-info/top_level.txt -> jsui-0.0.1/jsui.egg-info
> Writing jsui-0.0.1/setup.cfg
> Creating tar archive
> removing 'jsui-0.0.1' (and everything under it)
> running build
> running build_py
>
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