Hello all, I've got a tricky problem I'm trying to deal with. Here's the scenario:
I'm trying to build a package that has two requirements in setup_requires; let's say `setup_requires = ['package_A', 'package_B']`. The problem is that "package_B" also contains "package_A" in its own setup_requires. What happens when I do an install/build is that package_B is downloaded and installed--in the process it also downloads and installs package_A in its sandbox. This wouldn't be a problem except that the sandboxed temp install of package_A is left in pkg_resources.working_set.entries, and so it's assumed package_A is already installed, and the main install doesn't try to fetch it. However, when it goes to import from package_A, I get an import error (because the sandbox it was installed in has since been deleted). If I reverse the order it doesn't work either for a different, but related problem. package_A gets installed into the cwd and is added to pkg_resources.working_set. When package_B is installed it uses the existing package_A installation, so that's fine. But then, due to some complicated interplay, package_A never gets added to sys.path. I'd consider this a defect, though I'm wondering if there's something I could do differently to avoid this situation. Thanks, Erik _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
