The same problem just happened to me. It somehow seems like something triggers setuptools to do an 'old-style install' with distutils
, which indeed does not support install_requires
.
You call install.run(self) which calls run(self) in setuptools/setuptools/command/install.py, line 51-74
def run(self):
# Explicit request for old-style install? Just do it
if self.old_and_unmanageable or self.single_version_externally_managed:
return _install.run(self)
# Attempt to detect whether we were called from setup() or by another
# command. If we were called by setup(), our caller will be the
# 'run_command' method in 'distutils.dist', and *its* caller will be
# the 'run_commands' method. If we were called any other way, our
# immediate caller *might* be 'run_command', but it won't have been
# called by 'run_commands'. This is slightly kludgy, but seems to
# work.
#
caller = sys._getframe(2)
caller_module = caller.f_globals.get('__name__','')
caller_name = caller.f_code.co_name
if caller_module != 'distutils.dist' or caller_name!='run_commands':
# We weren't called from the command line or setup(), so we
# should run in backward-compatibility mode to support bdist_*
# commands.
_install.run(self)
else:
self.do_egg_install()
I'm not sure whether this behaviour is intended, but replacing
install.run(self)
with
install.do_egg_install()
should solve your problem. At least it works for me, but I would also appreciate a more detailed answer. Thanks!