Re: [IBMiOSS] Python, ACS, Open Source and MKDocs ** SOLVED **

[Joe Pluta <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

And just as a final addendum, I manually made the changes below to the 
livereload METADATA Requires-Dist statements, and mkdocs subsequently 
ran fine.  So that indeed was the root cause.  How I got to that state 
is most likely just a confluence of installation ignorance and version 
mismatches, but I'm not going to worry about it for now.

On 12/21/2020 6:26 PM, Kevin Adler wrote:
>     Sorry, that was my confusion due to venv automatically installing pip 18.1
>     which is neither the version installed from rpm, nor the newest version
>     available. I assumed that 18.1 must be the version in rpm (been a while
>     since I looked at the pip version we ship).
>      
>     Ok, now that we got that sorted, I found that pip _does_ automatically
>     build and install wheels _if_ the wheel package is installed, which
>     apparently is not the default. After installing the wheel package, I now
>     see the METADATA file and again see
>      
>     Requires-Dist: tornado (<6) ; python_version == "2.7"
>     Requires-Dist: tornado ; python_version > "2.7"
>      
>     just like on Linux. I got the same result with 9.0.1, 18.1, and 20.3.3 so
>     I'm not sure how you got the result you did.
>      
>
>       ----- Original message -----
>       From: Joe Pluta <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>       Sent by: "OpenSource" <opensource-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>       To: opensource@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>       Cc:
>       Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: [IBMiOSS] Python, ACS, Open Source and MKDocs **
>       SOLVED **
>       Date: Mon, Dec 21, 2020 6:05 PM
>        
>       pip 9.0.1 from /QOpenSys/pkgs/lib/python3.6/site-packages (python 3.6)
>
>       On 12/21/2020 5:59 PM, Kevin Adler wrote:
>       >     This is what I see on a Linux venv:
>       >
>       >     Requires-Dist: tornado (<6) ; python_version == "2.7"
>       >     Requires-Dist: tornado ; python_version > "2.7"
>       >
>       >
>       >     I installed livereload in a venv an it didn't even make a METADATA
>       file,
>       >     though. These are only created when installing from wheels, but
>       livereload
>       >     only provides tar.gz source distributions. Of course, pip since v7
>       should
>       >     auto build wheels and install from those
>       >     ([1][1]https://github.com/pypa/pip/pull/2618 ;), but that's not
>       working for me
>       >     for some reason. From your pip3 list, you're using 9.0.1? I'm not
>       sure how
>       >     you got that version. Are you sure you were running pip3 from rpm?
>       Try
>       >     running /QOpenSys/pkgs/bin/pip3 --version.
>       >
>       >
>       >       ----- Original message -----
>       >       From: Joe Pluta <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>       >       Sent by: "OpenSource" <opensource-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>       >       To: opensource@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>       >       Cc:
>       >       Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: [IBMiOSS] Python, ACS, Open Source and
>       MKDocs **
>       >       SOLVED **
>       >       Date: Mon, Dec 21, 2020 5:28 PM
>       >
>       >       Yeah, that makes sense, Kevin.  The METADATA generation should
>       have been
>       >       conditioned.
>       >
>       >       On 12/21/2020 5:25 PM, Kevin Adler wrote:
>       >       >     Glad you got it figured out. My guess is that setuptools
>       should
>       >       have
>       >       >     inserted one or another line depending on the version of
>       python
>       >       you're
>       >       >     installing with not both.
>       >       >
>       >       >     eg. pip2 install livereload -> Requires-Dist: tornado
>       (<6), pip3
>       >       install
>       >       >     livereload -> Requires-Dist: tornado
>       >       >
>       >       >     Now that you nailed down the culprit, I can do some
>       further
>       >       digging.
>       >       --