[Distutils] Parsing requirements, pip has no API ...

[Thomas Güttler]

Am 14.02.2015 um 00:11 schrieb Donald Stufft:
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> requirements.txt and setup.py serve different purposes, requirements.txt is for
> an environment, setup.py is for a package. It doesn't make sense for a setup.py
> to read from a requirement.txt just like it wouldn't make sense for a deb
> package to read from a Chef cookbook.
> 
> Often the reason people do this is they want to support people installing their
> thing with ``pip install -r requirements.txt`` from within a check out without
> needing to list their dependencies twice. That's a reasonable thing to want
> which is why the requirements file format has a construct that enables it,
> simply make a requirements.txt file that contains "." or "-e ." and pip will
> automatically install the project and all of it's dependencies.
> 
> For more information, see https://caremad.io/2013/07/setup-vs-requirement/.

thank you very much for your answer. I understand the topic better. The
comparison to a chef cookbook was good.




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