Could not find suitable distribution for Requirement.parse('httpsig')

[rubensayshi]

Trying to use httpsig as install_requires in my setup.py but python setup.py install keeps failing with:

Could not find suitable distribution for Requirement.parse('httpsig')

Happens with both py2.7 and py3.4

Testing with:

from setuptools import setup

setup(
    name='test-httpsig',
    install_requires=[
        'httpsig'
    ]
)

pip install httpsig works fine though

[mmautner]

pip install httpsig fails for me, looks like it's 404ing on PyPI:

Exception information:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Users/max/.virtualenvs/updownpic/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip/basecommand.py", line 134, in main
    status = self.run(options, args)
  File "/Users/max/.virtualenvs/updownpic/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip/commands/install.py", line 236, in run
    requirement_set.prepare_files(finder, force_root_egg_info=self.bundle, bundle=self.bundle)
  File "/Users/max/.virtualenvs/updownpic/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip/req.py", line 1085, in prepare_files
    url = finder.find_requirement(req_to_install, upgrade=self.upgrade)
  File "/Users/max/.virtualenvs/updownpic/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip/index.py", line 265, in find_requirement
    raise DistributionNotFound('No distributions at all found for %s' % req)
DistributionNotFound: No distributions at all found for httpsig==1.1.0

[tbarbugli]

@mmautner what version of pip are you using? if pip -V is older than 6.0 you probably need to upgrade pip in order to get httpsig installed

[mmautner]

thanks @tbarbugli -- that was the issue!

[tbarbugli]

any plan of fixing the source of this problem? this problem really breaks libs/apps depending on httpsig.

if you release a python package and add httpsig in the requirements (setup.py) chances are that python setup.py install will fail

[ahknight]

I'm not sure what the source of it is at the moment. I'll look into it, but if you know, do share.

[matthisk]

This issue occurs because there is only a wheel distributable available at pypi. pip handles the .whl package correctly but somehow setuptools refuses to install the wheel distributable. As a test I registered my own version of httpsig on pypi which is uploaded by running python setup.py sdist upload and this packages does not suffer from the same issue. Is there any reason you only distribute a wheel package, could you also publish it as a tarball?

[matthisk]

@ahknight any update on this?

[ahknight]

Uploaded this. Let me know how it goes on your end.