requirements-parser

[sebastian-philipp]

Please make use of https://github.com/davidfischer/requirements-parser

the duplicated requirements.txt is out of sync with the askbot_requirements.txt and keeping them synchronized is a lot of manual work

[evgenyfadeev]

there is askbot/startup_procedures that would need to read the requirements.txt file on every app startup.

It works fine in the dev environment, because it is easy to find the requirements.txt file, but when the package is installed AFAIK the requirements.txt file is not copied into the site-packages.

So in order to switch to relying on requirements.txt and keep the self test behavior, the requirements.txt must be part of the installed askbot module. This seems to be the only blocker to resolving the current issue by using the requirements.txt file as the source of the dependencies.

[evgenyfadeev]

perhaps the requirements.txt file can be generated automatically from askbot/__init__.py:REQUIREMENTS, that would make keeping it up to date easier. The generated file would have a warning on top so that nobody makes changes there.

[evgenyfadeev]

@sebastian-philipp a question - in your branches in https://github.com/martin-bts/askbot-devel/ were you relying on requirements.txt when installing the packages? In that case I will copy the packages versions into askbot/__init__.py, otherwise I'll do the opposite before merging your branches into https://github.com/ASKBOT/askbot-devel/

[sebastian-philipp]

We haven't changed the logic at all. We've just updated the dependencies.