Kevin Dangoor wrote: > (readding distutils-sig which I accidentally dropped) > > On 1/16/06, Christopher Fonnesbeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>On Jan 16, 2006, at 11:54 AM, Kevin Dangoor wrote: >> >> >>>Yes. This is something setuptools does quite admirably. This is in the >>>setup.py for TurboGears: >>> >>> install_requires = ["TurboKid >= 0.9.0", >>> "CherryPy > 2.1.1", >>> "SQLObject >= 0.7.1dev_r1457", "simplejson >= 1.1", >>> "elementtree >= 1.2.6", "PasteScript >= 0.4.1", >>> "cElementTree >= 1.0.2", "FormEncode >= 0.4", >>> "setuptools >= 0.6a8", >>> "RuleDispatch"], >>> >>>Running easy_install on the TurboGears package will go and fetch all >>>of those pre-requisites. >>> >>>So, easy_install is the installer, and your egg includes the metadata >>>about which packages it needs. >> >>This is what I was hoping. What about URLs? The packages dont have to >>be in the cheese shop, do they? > > > Nope. TurboGears uses some packages that aren't in the Cheeseshop. You > can use the -f/--find-links option to tell easy_install where to look. > You can see the TurboGears installation instructions to see the full > process: > > http://www.turbogears.org/download/index.html > > Generally, pretty easy. If you have all of the eggs available on your > local machine, you can also have setuptools run with those eggs.
You can also put the links on your Cheese Shop page (in the long_description). If you do that, you should also add the links to setup.cfg, like: [easy_install] find_links = ... The combination of these two I think is sufficient to get the package and dependencies installed both with easy_install and python setup.py install/develop. -- Ian Bicking / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / http://blog.ianbicking.org _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
