collectstatic does not run when using setup.py

[davidism]

I am using setup.py instead of requirements.txt to specify my dependencies. The dependencies are installed correctly; however, the collectstatic step does not detect that Django is installed.

I verified this by adding pip-grep requirements.txt django Django to bin/post_compile. Since requirements.txt is generated and only contains -e . when using setup.py, pip-grep outputs Not found..

This probably affects any other steps that rely on pip-grep to check dependencies.

[davidism]

Rather than parsing requirements.txt, it would be more straightforward to use pkg_resources to examine the installed distributions. Replace pip-grep with the following script.

#!/usr/bin/env python
import sys
from pkg_resources import get_distribution, DistributionNotFound

try:
    get_distribution(sys.argv[1])
except DistributionNotFound:
    sys.exit(1)

has-distribution django && DJANGO_INSTALLED=1

[davidism]

@kennethreitz this doesn't appear to be fixed. Why was this closed?

[kennethreitz]

sorry for closing without explanation — this is intentional.