[Grok-dev] Grok via easy_install

[Patrick Gerken]

On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 19:55, Kevin Teague <kevin at bud.ca> wrote:

>
>
> On May 9, 5:50 pm, Patrick Gerken <do3cc... at googlemail.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I don't know if this is really be a bug, but atm if I try to install grok
> > via easy_install, it pull the depencies with wrong versions.
> > Should this use case be supported or not?
> >
>
> This is largely a drawback of easy_install, it will always grab the
> newest requirements in the 'install_requires' dependency graph. It's
> possible to pin this graph down to specific versions, but it would be
> a huge hassle, requiring every package Grok depends upon be released
> with every Grok release. It makes much more sense to have
> install_requires only be as specific as API compatability for a given
> package.
>
> However, if you really do want to use easy_install, it would be
> possible to take the same approach as TurboGears and BFG, and build a
> package index for each release that only contained packages in that
> specific release. It's kind of a backwards way of solving the problem
> but it works.
>
> Alternatively use buildout or pip :)


I don't see where buildout could ease the pain, cause the versions you pin
down there, also have to be on pypi.

The one advantage that I am aware of, is easy generation a versions.cfg with
whats currently installed in buildout. I agree that this is of value.

I have looked into the setup.py of turbogears, and they pin down the
versions. An idea could be to create a buildout recipe that creates a new
setup.py with the versions it has. This would solve the problems, no?

Best regards,

        Patrick

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