element_interface imported but not in requirements

[sneakers-the-rat]

Bug Report

Description

element_interface is imported:

element-deeplabcut/element_deeplabcut/model.py

Line 16 in 0c71ecb

from element_interface.utils import find_full_path, find_root_directory

but not in requirements.txt, so the package cannot be imported.

duplicate of datajoint/element-array-ephys#66

[kabilar]

Thanks for the report @sneakers-the-rat. We opted not to keep element-interface in the requirements.txt because element-interface is used to install third-party packages, some of which are not on PyPI. From what I understand, all packages within the requirements.txt or setup.py must be published to PyPI in order for the package of interest to be published to PyPI. Please let us know if you have any suggestions as we are trying to find a cleaner way of setting up these dependencies.

[sneakers-the-rat]

you can require something from git in a requirements.txt file!

package-name @ git+https://github.com/whatever/repo@branchname

see https://pip.pypa.io/en/stable/topics/vcs-support/

I have several packages on PyPI that have git dependencies, so it's definitely allowed! for example: https://github.com/wehr-lab/autopilot/blob/637064da3d10e9eeb186483827c8b7dadaa2f356/pyproject.toml#L55