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Wes McKinney commented on ARROW-1346:
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My understanding is that installing packages via {{setup.py}} (i.e.
easy_install) is effectively deprecated, and so it's unlikely we'll support it
here. See associated discussion in the TensorFlow issue tracker
https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/issues/6540 ("Building and
distributing an egg file is not planned for tensorflow, as it is the old
deprecated standard. I will close this issue now.") . I would recommend
changing your software deployment process to use pip and requirements.txt. You
can also use conda to achieve the same result.
> [Python] 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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