[Distutils] How to add GDAL as a dependency to a Python package

[Chris Barker]

On Wed, Apr 13, 2016 at 12:02 AM, Luí­s de Sousa <
luis.de.sousa at protonmail.ch> wrote:

> Thank you for the reply Chris.
>
> I just tried to install pygdal directly from PiPY on a stock Ubuntu
> distribution and it fails [0], even if I supposedly have all the necessary
> headers installed.
>

exactly -- not a pip issue :-(

are there not Ubuntu packages for GDAL?

-CHB


I will try easier ways before going with Conda, but thanks for the
> suggestion in any case.
>
> Luís
>
> [0] http://pastebin.com/gzrimLvB
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> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: [Distutils] How to add GDAL as a dependency to a Python
> package
> Local Time: April 12, 2016 6:45 PM
> UTC Time: April 12, 2016 4:45 PM
> From: chris.barker at noaa.gov
> To: luis.de.sousa at protonmail.ch
> CC: distutils-sig at python.org
>
> setting gdal as a dependency is only going to work if one of these is true:
>
> * There is a binary wheel on PyPi for gdal (which is very hard to do,
> though with teh manylinux effort, maybe there will be some day)
>
> * the system on which you are trying to install is all set up to compile
> gdal -- which is a major effort, and indeed, I'm not sure is possible (I
> haven't looked)
>   - The GDAL source ships with the python bindings, so the usual thing is
> for gdal itself and the pyton bindings to all get compiled and installed at
> once. I"m not srue that anyone has made a setup.py that will do that.
>
> This kind of thing is exactly why conda exists -- python packages with
> complex non-python dependencies are not well handled by pip / pypi -- if I
> were you, I"d give it a try :-)
>
> -CHB
>
>
>


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