Install issue

[adityakavalur]

Hi! great project! I am hoping to test it out but running into installation issues, wondering if I am doing something obviously wrong. Appreciate any insight

(openevolve-env) adityakavalur@Adityas-Air openevolve % python -V
Python 3.12.2
(openevolve-env) adityakavalur@Adityas-Air openevolve % git rev-parse HEAD
2b9804fbc2a36749647e69639989e03c12e0e239
(openevolve-env) adityakavalur@Adityas-Air openevolve % python -m pip install -e .         
Obtaining file:///Users/adityakavalur/Downloads/work/code-developer/evolve-agents/openevolve
  Installing build dependencies ... done
  Checking if build backend supports build_editable ... done
  Getting requirements to build editable ... error
  error: subprocess-exited-with-error
  
  × Getting requirements to build editable did not run successfully.
  │ exit code: 1
  ╰─> [21 lines of output]
      Traceback (most recent call last):
        File "/Users/adityakavalur/Downloads/work/code-developer/evolve-agents/openevolve-env/lib/python3.12/site-packages/pip/_vendor/pyproject_hooks/_in_process/_in_process.py", line 353, in <module>
          main()
        File "/Users/adityakavalur/Downloads/work/code-developer/evolve-agents/openevolve-env/lib/python3.12/site-packages/pip/_vendor/pyproject_hooks/_in_process/_in_process.py", line 335, in main
          json_out['return_val'] = hook(**hook_input['kwargs'])
                                   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
        File "/Users/adityakavalur/Downloads/work/code-developer/evolve-agents/openevolve-env/lib/python3.12/site-packages/pip/_vendor/pyproject_hooks/_in_process/_in_process.py", line 132, in get_requires_for_build_editable
          return hook(config_settings)
                 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
        File "/private/var/folders/kv/lqpq7lzj1tl18hwfvyqvlmkc0000gn/T/pip-build-env-wiu9y6jg/overlay/lib/python3.12/site-packages/setuptools/build_meta.py", line 473, in get_requires_for_build_editable
          return self.get_requires_for_build_wheel(config_settings)
                 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
        File "/private/var/folders/kv/lqpq7lzj1tl18hwfvyqvlmkc0000gn/T/pip-build-env-wiu9y6jg/overlay/lib/python3.12/site-packages/setuptools/build_meta.py", line 331, in get_requires_for_build_wheel
          return self._get_build_requires(config_settings, requirements=[])
                 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
        File "/private/var/folders/kv/lqpq7lzj1tl18hwfvyqvlmkc0000gn/T/pip-build-env-wiu9y6jg/overlay/lib/python3.12/site-packages/setuptools/build_meta.py", line 301, in _get_build_requires
          self.run_setup()
        File "/private/var/folders/kv/lqpq7lzj1tl18hwfvyqvlmkc0000gn/T/pip-build-env-wiu9y6jg/overlay/lib/python3.12/site-packages/setuptools/build_meta.py", line 317, in run_setup
          exec(code, locals())
        File "<string>", line 2, in <module>
      ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'openevolve'
      [end of output]
  
  note: This error originates from a subprocess, and is likely not a problem with pip.
error: subprocess-exited-with-error

× Getting requirements to build editable did not run successfully.
│ exit code: 1
╰─> See above for output.

note: This error originates from a subprocess, and is likely not a problem with pip.

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[adityakavalur]

I am not very good with python, I tried to add the location of the directory in $PYTHONPATH, to see if it could load itself before installation, but had no luck. I was able to get it to work by modifying the setup.py as shown below so it would drop self import references

(shellgpt-venv) adityakavalur@Adityas-MacBook-Air openevolve % cat setup.py 
from setuptools import setup, find_packages
import os

def read_version():
    path = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), "openevolve", "__init__.py")
    with open(path) as f:
        for line in f:
            if line.startswith("__version__"):
                delim = '"' if '"' in line else "'"
                return line.split(delim)[1]
    raise RuntimeError("Unable to find version string.")

setup(
    name="openevolve",
    version=read_version(),
    packages=find_packages(),
    include_package_data=True,
)

[codelion]

Thanks for reporting, fixing it.