Fix Python – How to write setup.py to include a Git repository as a dependency

Question 1

I am trying to write setup.py for my package. My package needs to specify a dependency on another Git repository.

This is what I have so far:

from setuptools import setup, find_packages

setup(
    name='abc',
    packages=find_packages(),
    url='https://github.abc.com/abc/myabc',
    description='This is a description for abc',
    long_description=open('README.md').read(),
    install_requires=[
        "requests==2.7.0",
        "SomePrivateLib>=0.1.0",
        ],
    dependency_links = [
     "git+git://github.abc.com/abc/SomePrivateLib.git#egg=SomePrivateLib",
    ],
    include_package_data=True,
)

When I run:

pip install -e https://github.abc.com/abc/myabc.git#egg=analyse

I get

Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement
SomePrivateLib>=0.1.0 (from analyse) (from versions: ) No matching
distribution found for SomePrivateLib>=0.1.0 (from analyse)

What am I doing wrong?

Question 2

Note: this answer is now outdated. Have a look at this answer from @Dick Fox for up-to-date instructions: https://stackoverflow.com/a/54794506/2272172

You can find the right way to do it here.

dependency_links=['http://github.com/user/repo/tarball/master#egg=package-1.0']

The key is not to give a link to a Git repository, but a link to a tarball. GitHub creates a tarball of the master branch for you if you append /tarball/master as shown above.

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