[Distutils] Please do not remove dependency_links

[Hannes Schmidt]

On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 11:12 AM, Daniel Holth <dholth at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 1:45 PM, Hannes Schmidt <hannes at ucsc.edu> wrote:
> > Thank you for your suggestions, Donald. They are both feasible but they
> feel
> > like workarounds to me.
> >
> > Manually listing transitive dependencies seems like a step backwards to
> me.
> > Isn't the whole point of setuptools/distutils that each component manages
> > its own list of dependencies? How will this scale to dozens of transitive
> > dependencies and busy development teams where dependencies are revved
> > frequently. I really liked what Maven did for Java and therefore liked
> what
> > pip is trying to do for Python.
> >
> > I haven't used --find-links yet so I may be wrong but tarring up packages
> > and serving them by a web server is additional work that I'd rather
> avoid.
> > It just creates yet another copy of the package and requires maintaining
> an
> > additional server component.
> >
> > I loved the fact that I could point pip directly at my source repos for
> both
> > my top-level projects as well as their dependencies. That seemed like a
> > perfect fit for an interpreted language like Python where packages are
> > distributed in source form. Removing dependency_links makes that feature
> > useless to me because it doesn't extend to dependencies, only top level
> > components.
>
> IIUC a dependency link is the same as passing --find-links=x for that
> URL. I understand this doesn't exactly solve your problem.
>

I don't know. How do I translate

pip install hg+ssh://hg@bitbucket.org/cghub/cghub-cloud-agent@default

with cghub-cloud-agent's setup.py being

setup(
    name="cghub-cloud-agent",
    version="1.0.dev1",
    install_requires=[
        'cghub-cloud-lib>=1.0.dev1',
        'cghub-python-lib>=1.4.dev1', ...
    ],
    dependency_links=[
        'hg+ssh://
hg at bitbucket.org/cghub/cghub-python-lib at default#egg=cghub-python-lib-1.4.dev1
',
        'hg+ssh://
hg at bitbucket.org/cghub/cghub-cloud-lib at default#egg=cghub-cloud-lib-1.0.dev1'
    ],
)

into a use of --find-links?


>
> Your internal projects are in private bitbucket repositories?
>

Yep



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