How to write setup.py to include a git repo as a dependency

Question

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

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 ?

Answer 1

After digging through the pip issue 3939 linked by @muon in the comments above and then the PEP-508 specification, I found success getting my private repo dependency to install via setup.py using this specification pattern in install_requires (no more dependency_links):

install_requires = [
  'some-pkg @ git+ssh://[email protected]/someorgname/[email protected]#egg=some-pkg',
]

The @v1.1 indicates the release tag created on github and could be replaced with a branch, commit, or different type of tag.