How can I make setuptools install a package that’s not on PyPI?

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The key is to tell easy_install where the package can be downloaded. In this particular case, it can be found at the url http://github.com/mtai/python-gearman/tarball/master. However, that link by itself won’t work, because easy_install can’t tell just by looking at the URL what it’s going to get.

By changing it to http://github.com/mtai/python-gearman/tarball/master#egg=gearman-2.0.0beta instead, easy_install will be able to identify the package name and its version.

The final step is to add the URL to your package’s dependency_links, e.g.:

setup(
   ...
   dependency_links = ['http://github.com/mtai/python-gearman/tarball/master#egg=gearman-2.0.0beta']
)

Now, when YOUR package is being installed, easy_install will discover that there is a “gearman 2.0.0beta” available for download from that URL, and happily pick it over the one on PyPI, if you specify “gearman>=2.0.0beta” in your dependencies..

(Normally, the way this sort of thing is done is to include a link on one’s PyPI page to the downloadable source; in this case, if the author of the gearman package had included a link like the above, you’d be already set. Typically, people mark the development version with ‘myproject-dev’ and then people use a requirement of ‘myproject>=somever,==dev’, so that if there isn’t a package of somever or higher, easy_install will try to check out or download the release.)

You’ll need to specify --process-dependency-links when using pip. Note that dependency links processing has been deprecated and will be removed in a future release.

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