Installing non-"piped" packages through pip install?

[beniroquai]

When installing this repo from source, a few dependencies are missing. How can we ensure they are getting installed properly (asking for a friend :D @AZehrer)..

One example:
https://github.com/openUC2/ImSwitch/blob/master/setup.cfg#L64

CC: @renerichter @kasasxav

[kasasxav]

I don't really know the answer to this one sorry :L I would say either doing it manually after or maybe doing the .whl and then adding the file in the repo, or the repo itself (https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7813030/how-can-i-have-linked-dependencies-in-a-git-repo). Not ideal though and it will be a bit messy, maybe someone else has a better approach?

[beniroquai]

That's a good start. I have tried several formulations in the setup.cfg, but it seems it's an OS/version-dependent issue. That makes it difficult ;-)

@renerichter any thoughts on this? :)

[renerichter]

@beniroquai you mean that commented packages exist that shall rather be uncommented? Or do you mean that when uncommenting these packages in setup.cfg installation breaks? How about adding e.g. a conda installation recipe which the user could easily invoke afterwards?
Finally, a batch-script could be created which does an auto-installation, but this is tedious to maintain for different OS and versions of many toolboxes.

[beniroquai]

What I mean is this (already outcommented) line: https://github.com/openUC2/ImSwitch/blob/master/setup.cfg#L61
In best case, we have this in the setup.cfg. It pulls packages from github/gitlab and installs it similar to pypi packages. Makes sense?
Agree, bash scripts are cumbersome..

[beniroquai]

What I mean is this (already outcommented) line: https://github.com/openUC2/ImSwitch/blob/master/setup.cfg#L61
In best case, we have this in the setup.cfg. It pulls packages from github/gitlab and installs it similar to pypi packages. Makes sense?
Agree, bash scripts are cumbersome..