[SciPy-User] SciPy pip and PyPi

[Dag Sverre Seljebotn]

David Cournapeau wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 7:21 PM, Francesc Alted <faltet at pytables.org> wrote:
>   
>> A Friday 12 November 2010 23:38:21 David Cournapeau escrigué:
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>>> On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 12:40 AM, Martin Galpin <galpin at gmail.com>
>>>       
>> wrote:
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>>>> Dear all,
>>>> I am attempting to install SciPy using pip and pypi into a
>>>> virtualenv. However, because the SciPy egg does not list NumPy as
>>>> as a dependency, the process cannot be automated using a pip
>>>> requirements file (the install fails because there is no guarantee
>>>> of the order pip installs packages and when installing SciPy,
>>>> NumPy might not be installed).
>>>> I have verified this is the case on both OS X and Ubuntu 10.10.
>>>> Can anybody suggest an alternative?
>>>>         
>>> That's not possible I am afraid. Those tools are pretty limited, and
>>> cannot express complex dependencies: numpy is a *build* dependency of
>>> scipy, and scipy setup.py needs numpy to run at all. Neither
>>> setuptools nor pip support this concept,
>>>       
>> Hmm, I think this is actually supported by setuptools.  I'm attaching
>> some excerpts of the setup.py in PyTables for dealing with dependencies
>> that you may want to use as an example:
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>
> But this works because you don't need numpy.distutils in your setup.py
> (you don't call from numpy.distutils import foo). Since the only way
> setuptools can know the setup_requires is to actually run it, you have
> an obvious issue here.
>
> I am sure it could be made to work if someones was really motivated,
>   

Inspect the stack and choose a different execution path depending on who 
the caller is? ;-)

Dag Sverre