This directory is created intentionally as part of the build process for a source distribution. A little gander at the developer guide for setuptools gives you a hint as to why: But, be sure to ignore any part of the distutils documentation that deals with MANIFEST or how it’s generated from MANIFEST.in; setuptools shields you … Read more
As of December 11, 2012 the Downloads feature on GitHub is deprecated. The article Distributing large binaries recommends using an external service: We recommend Amazon S3 for storage paired with CloudFront for serving via CDN, or other services such as SourceForge. However, since 2d July 2013, you now can define a release. Releases, a workflow … Read more
My philosophy is that install_requires should indicate a minimum of what you need. It might include version requirements if you know that some versions will not work; but it shouldn’t have version requirements where you aren’t sure (e.g., you aren’t sure if a future release of a dependency will break your library or not). Requirements … Read more
Add –egg option pip install –egg SCons I use pip version 1.4.1
You can do this without installing anything into python itself. You don’t need sudo or any privileges. You don’t need to edit any files. Install virtualenv into a bootstrap virtual environment. Use the that virtual environment to create more. Since virtualenv ships with pip and distribute, you get everything from one install. Download virtualenv: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/virtualenv … Read more
As of May 2022, most of the other answers to this question are several years out-of-date. When you come across advice on Python packaging issues, remember to look at the date of publication, and don’t trust out-of-date information. The Python Packaging User Guide is worth a read. Every page has a “last updated” date displayed, … Read more