PIP install a Python Package without a setup.py file?

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erikcw picture erikcw · Feb 5, 2010 · Viewed 8.6k times · Source

I'm trying to figure out how I can install a python package that doesn't have a setup.py file with pip. (package in question is http://code.google.com/p/django-google-analytics/)

Normally I would just checkout the code from the repo and symlink into my site-packages, but I'm trying to get my whole environment frozen into a pip requirements file for easy deployment and testing.

Any ideas?

Answer

Carl Meyer picture Carl Meyer · Feb 5, 2010

Fork the repo and add a working setup.py. Then send a pull request to the author.

Oh, it's on Google Code. Well then, file a bug and post a patch.

If the author refuses to make their code into an installable Python distribution (never happened to me), just host your fork somewhere and put that in your requirements file.

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