The other option might be to use http://bitbucket.org/dholth/setup-requires
It uses pip to install requirements into an isolated directory before setup.py runs, with pip, doing exactly what you requested. On Feb 24, 2015 5:44 PM, "Nick Coghlan" <ncogh...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 25 Feb 2015 07:23, "Alexander Belopolsky" < > alexander.belopol...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 2:03 PM, Daniel Holth <dho...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > > Is there a recommended way to invoke pip from setup.py? When I > specify > > > > "tests_require=" and run "python setup.py test", the requirements get > > > > installed using setuptools' easy_install 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. > > > > > > Isn't this a chicken and egg problem? I currently have > > > > tests_require=['tox'], > > > > and this is exactly what tox recommends: > > > > > https://testrun.org/tox/latest/example/basic.html#integration-with-setuptools-distribute-test-commands > > > > > > Note that my CI box is a CentOS 6.5 with Python 2.6.6, setuptools 0.6. > This is still a very common server configuration. What is the recommended > way to bootstrap tox in such environment? > > If running in the system Python isn't absolutely essential, then the > Python 2.7 collection from softwarecollections.org is the preferred way > to get a newer Python 2 (including pip et al) on CentOS. You can also get > access to Python 3 that way. > > Failing that, pip & virtualenv are also available from the EPEL 6 repos. > > Both of those approaches rely on the system package manager to do the > bootstrapping of the Python specific tooling. > > If both softwarecollections.org and EPEL are considered unacceptable > dependencies, then you're going to have to do your own bootstrapping for > PyPI access on CentOS (which may include relying on easy_install to > bootstrap pip and/or virtualenv) > > Regards, > Nick. > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Python-Dev mailing list > > Python-Dev@python.org > > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev > > Unsubscribe: > https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/ncoghlan%40gmail.com > > >
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