How to include and install local dependencies in setup.py in Python?

Question

I am creating a setup.py to distribute my application. This application has a number of dependencies which can be installed via pip, it also has some custom

Answer 1

it is possible but not sure what setuptools version you should use. steps:

in setup.py

setup(
  ...,
  install_requires=['my-package'],
  dependency_links=[
    # location to your egg file
    os.path.join(os.getcwd(), 'deps', 'my_package-1.0.0-py3.5.egg')
  ]
)

important thing is that your location should not pass URL pattern test and egg file name should have structure --.egg