Python setup.py with private repository on GitLab as dependency_links based on commit ID

Question

I am trying to install a private dependency (not something that Python could find on PyPI).

I have added to the file setup.py this (as explained here: https

Answer 1

https://python-packaging.readthedocs.io/ is quite old and outdated. Its sources was last updated at Dec 29, 2016 and most parts of it were not updated since 2012. Python packaging landscape changed significantly since that times. The new docs are at https://packaging.python.org/

dependency_links were declared obsolete and finally removed in pip 19.0. The replacement for it is install_requires with special syntax (supported since pip 19.1):

install_requires=[
    'package_name @ git+https://gitlab.com/<PRIVATE_ORG>/<PRIVATE_REPO>.git@<COMMIT_ID>'
]

See https://pip.readthedocs.io/en/stable/reference/pip_install/#requirement-specifiers and https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0440/#direct-references

This requires pip install including pip install . and doesn't work with python setup.py install.

Answer 2

I've read multiple answers, but only this one worked for me (using pip 20.2.3 and Gitlab Pypi feature):

pip3 install --extra-index-url https://__token__:my_personal_token@gitlab.com/api/v4/projects/347/packages/pypi/simple .

My setup.py looked like:

from setuptools import setup

setup(name='whatever_production_scripts',
      version='0.0.1',
      description='Whatever production scripts',
      url='https://gitlab.com/user/whatever',
      author='Me Myself',
      author_email='user@whatever.com',
      license='All rights reserved',
      scripts=[
          'whatever_production_scripts/production/insomnia.py',
          'whatever_production_scripts/production/rdsmaintenance.py',
          'whatever_production_scripts/production/changeinstancetype.py',
      ],
      packages=[
          'whatever_production_scripts',
          'whatever_production_scripts.production',
      ],
      classifiers=[
          "Development Status :: 3 - Alpha",
          "Intended Audience :: System Administrators",
          "Operating System :: POSIX :: Linux",
          "Topic :: Internet",
          "Topic :: System :: Systems Administration",
          "Programming Language :: Python :: 3 :: Only"
      ],
      install_requires=[
          'privatepackage1>=0.1',
          'publicpackage1>=7',
          'publicpackage2>=2'
      ],
      zip_safe=False)