[Python-Dev] easy_install ? (original) (raw)

Daniel Holth dholth at gmail.com
Tue Feb 24 20:03:47 CET 2015

On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 1:31 PM, Alexander Belopolsky <alexander.belopolsky at gmail.com> wrote:

On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 11:44 AM, Paul Moore <p.f.moore at gmail.com> wrote:

And if pip won't work, it would be good to know why. Is there a recommended way to invoke pip from setup.py? When I specify "testsrequire=" and run "python setup.py test", the requirements get installed using setuptools' easyinstall function.

The solution is to not do that. A substitute is to specify your test requirements in a [test] extra and install them with pip or to run tests with tox. This gives control of the installer back to the user instead of the setup.py author.

https://pythonhosted.org/setuptools/setuptools.html#declaring-extras-optional-features-with-their- own-dependencies

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