Antony Mayi created ARROW-1346:
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Summary: pypi packages compatible with setuptools
Key: ARROW-1346
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-1346
Project: Apache Arrow
Issue Type: Wish
Components: Python
Affects Versions: 0.5.0
Reporter: Antony Mayi
Attachments: setup.py
setuptools is internally using easy_install for pulling packages from pypi.
easy_install doesn't support wheel so since pyarrow is in pypi distributed only
as wheels it is not possible to package a product depending on pyarrow using
setuptools.
see attached [^setup.py]:
{code}
$ python setup.py test
running test
Searching for pyarrow==0.5.0.post2
Reading https://pypi.python.org/simple/pyarrow/
No local packages or working download links found for pyarrow==0.5.0.post2
error: Could not find suitable distribution for
Requirement.parse('pyarrow==0.5.0.post2')
{code}
It's a shame setuptools don't support wheels. unfortunately it supports only
eggs or raw source packages (see
[distro_for_location|https://github.com/pypa/setuptools/blob/master/setuptools/package_index.py#L112]).
I am not suggesting providing eggs but perhaps publishing raw tar.gz should be
considered so that setuptools can at least build the dependency itself.
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