On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 2:06 PM, Jason Baker <jba...@zeomega.com> wrote: > On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 12:53 PM, Darren Dale <dsdal...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 1:19 PM, Ian Bicking <i...@colorstudy.com> wrote: >> > On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 7:27 AM, Olemis Lang <ole...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> My experience is that only `install_requires` is needed (unless you >> >> want to create app bundles AFAICR) , but in practice I've noticed that >> >> *some* easy_installable packages are not pip-able (though I had no >> >> time to figure out why :-/ ) >> > >> > Usually this is because Setuptools is poking at objects to do its >> > work, while pip tries to work mostly with subprocesses. Though to >> > complicate things a bit, pip makes sure the Setuptools monkeypatches >> > to distutils are applied, so that it's always as though the setup.py >> > says "from setuptools import setup". easy_install *also* does this. >> > >> > But then easy_install starts calling methods and whatnot, while pip just >> > does: >> > >> > setup.py install --single-version-externally-managed --no-deps >> > --record some_tmp_file >> > >> > The --no-deps keeps Setuptools from resolving dependencies >> >> Seeking clarification: how can pip recursively install dependencies >> *and* keep Setuptools from resolving dependencies? >> > > Using the --no-deps option to setup.py
Amusing. Seriously though, how does pip determine the dependencies if it is calling setup.py with arguments that prevent Setuptools from resolving the dependencies? pip --help doesn't indicate a --no-deps option, it sounds like pip is passing that option to setup.py under the hood. Darren _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
