[yt-dev] pip requirements

[Nathan Goldbaum]

On Sun, Jan 18, 2015 at 6:49 AM, John Zuhone <jzuhone at gmail.com> wrote:

> Is this "yes, we should" to install_requires or to a requirements.txt?
>
> Nathan, after looking it over, I see that there are problems when you
> have to define the same package in setup_requires and
> install_requires, which we'd have to do for NumPy.
>

Apparently this was fixed in Setuptools 7.0, released late last year:

https://bitbucket.org/pypa/setuptools/pull-request/97/cache-eggs-required-for-building-in-eggs/diff


>
> Having to depend on other C libraries doesn't bother me as much (isn't
> it strictly just HDF5?), because those failures will be related to
> those other packages (h5py) and not yt in particular.
>
>
> On Sat, Jan 17, 2015 at 4:04 PM, Matthew Turk <matthewturk at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Yes, we should.
> >
> >
> > On Sat, Jan 17, 2015, 2:50 PM John ZuHone <jzuhone at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi dev,
> >>
> >> Should we have a requirements.txt file for pip? Currently we require
> users
> >> who install via pip to have the required packages set up already (numpy,
> >> sympy, h5py, etc.), but if we had a requirements file then it would pick
> >> these up automatically if they weren’t already there.
> >>
> >> https://pip.pypa.io/en/latest/user_guide.html#requirements-files
> >>
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