[Python-Dev] easy_install ?

[Daniel Holth]

The other option might be to use http://bitbucket.org/dholth/setup-requires

It uses pip to install requirements into an isolated directory before
setup.py runs, with pip, doing exactly what you requested.
On Feb 24, 2015 5:44 PM, "Nick Coghlan" <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> On 25 Feb 2015 07:23, "Alexander Belopolsky" <
> alexander.belopolsky at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 2:03 PM, Daniel Holth <dholth at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Is there a recommended way to invoke pip from setup.py?  When I
> specify
> > > > "tests_require=" and run "python setup.py test", the requirements get
> > > > installed using setuptools' easy_install function.
> > >
> > > The solution is to not do that. A substitute is to specify your test
> > > requirements in a [test] extra and install them with pip or to run
> > > tests with tox. This gives control of the installer back to the user
> > > instead of the setup.py author.
> >
> >
> > Isn't this a chicken and egg problem?  I currently have
> >
> > tests_require=['tox'],
> >
> > and this is exactly what tox recommends:
> >
> >
> https://testrun.org/tox/latest/example/basic.html#integration-with-setuptools-distribute-test-commands
> >
> >
> > Note that my CI box is a CentOS 6.5 with Python 2.6.6, setuptools 0.6.
> This is still a very common server configuration.  What is the recommended
> way to bootstrap tox in such environment?
>
> If running in the system Python isn't absolutely essential, then the
> Python 2.7 collection from softwarecollections.org is the preferred way
> to get a newer Python 2 (including pip et al) on CentOS. You can also get
> access to Python 3 that way.
>
> Failing that, pip & virtualenv are also available from the EPEL 6 repos.
>
> Both of those approaches rely on the system package manager to do the
> bootstrapping of the Python specific tooling.
>
> If both softwarecollections.org and EPEL are considered unacceptable
> dependencies, then you're going to have to do your own bootstrapping for
> PyPI access on CentOS (which may include relying on easy_install to
> bootstrap pip and/or virtualenv)
>
> Regards,
> Nick.
>
> >
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