Re: packaging the meta-searchenging searx fails at python-requests[socks]

[Hartmut Goebel]

Hi ng0,

well, you were caught in a pitfall about setup.py vs. requirements.txt.

requirements.txt files are only for helping to setup a reproducible environment.The idea is that one dumps her environment using "pip freeze …" and reinstalls it using "pip install -r requirements.txt". So requirements.txt only describes some environment used for building or testing.

The actual requirements specification of a package are defined in the setup.py.

And in your case, here lays the problem: requests's setup.py says:[1]:

   'socks': ['PySocks>=1.5.6, !=1.5.7'],

So searchx's requirement "requests[socks]" is not met if PySocks==1.5.7 is installed.

[1] <https://github.com/kennethreitz/requests/blob/master/setup.py#L98>


HTH

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Hartmut Goebel

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