On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 10:44 PM, Carl Meyer <c...@dirtcircle.com> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi Darren, > > Darren Dale wrote: >> 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. > > Pip asks setuptools not to install dependencies because pip has already > handled them. (Pip does some things differently from easy_install; for > instance it downloads all dependencies and runs "setup.py egg_info" on > each before actually installing any of them, to reduce the chances that > a broken dependency leaves your system in an inconsistent state). Pip > only shells out to setuptools for the actual installation of each > individual package, once it has already resolved dependencies and > downloaded all of them.
BTW, That makes me wonder how hard it would be to make it use a plain "python setup.py install" call instead, to remove the easy_install dependency ? Since it could simply loop into each dependency I am thinking about a version of pip that would be built on the top of distutils2, > > Carl > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ > > iEYEARECAAYFAkuqh7UACgkQ1j/fhc23WEASjgCeMd7q515GW1k9evrjrkUeensN > Fz8AoILeDhVJb8AETL9Bq8R0jzBXsBMa > =xzjl > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > _______________________________________________ > Distutils-SIG maillist - distutils-...@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig > -- Tarek Ziadé | http://ziade.org _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
