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{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"gitpython-2.0.9.dev0 has run-time dependency on nose","articleBody":"Installing recently-released GitPython==2.0.9.dev0 results in  'No module named nose.tools' error on 'import git':\n\n```\n$ rm -rf ~/tmp/test_gitpython; virtualenv ~/tmp/test_gitpython; ~/tmp/test_gitpython/bin/pip install  gitpython==2.0.9.dev0; ~/tmp/test_gitpython/bin/python -c 'import git'\nNew python executable in /home/desbonne/tmp/test_gitpython/bin/python\nPlease make sure you remove any previous custom paths from your /home/desbonne/.pydistutils.cfg file.\nInstalling setuptools, pip, wheel...done.\nCollecting gitpython==2.0.9.dev0\n  Using cached GitPython-2.0.9.dev0-py2.py3-none-any.whl\nCollecting gitdb\u003e=0.6.4 (from gitpython==2.0.9.dev0)\nCollecting smmap\u003e=0.8.5 (from gitdb\u003e=0.6.4-\u003egitpython==2.0.9.dev0)\nInstalling collected packages: smmap, gitdb, gitpython\nSuccessfully installed gitdb-0.6.4 gitpython-2.0.9.dev0 smmap-0.9.0\nTraceback (most recent call last):\n  File \"\u003cstring\u003e\", line 1, in \u003cmodule\u003e\n  File \"/home/desbonne/tmp/test_gitpython/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/git/__init__.py\", line 36, in \u003cmodule\u003e\n    from git.objects import *               # @NoMove @IgnorePep8\n  File \"/home/desbonne/tmp/test_gitpython/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/git/objects/__init__.py\", line 11, in \u003cmodule\u003e\n    from .commit import *\n  File \"/home/desbonne/tmp/test_gitpython/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/git/objects/commit.py\", line 17, in \u003cmodule\u003e\n    from .tree import Tree\n  File \"/home/desbonne/tmp/test_gitpython/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/git/objects/tree.py\", line 13, in \u003cmodule\u003e\n    from .submodule.base import Submodule\n  File \"/home/desbonne/tmp/test_gitpython/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/git/objects/submodule/base.py\", line 42, in \u003cmodule\u003e\n    from git.test.lib.helper import HIDE_WINDOWS_KNOWN_ERRORS\n  File \"/home/desbonne/tmp/test_gitpython/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/git/test/lib/__init__.py\", line 9, in \u003cmodule\u003e\n    from .asserts import *\n  File \"/home/desbonne/tmp/test_gitpython/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/git/test/lib/asserts.py\", line 10, in \u003cmodule\u003e\n    from nose.tools import (\nImportError: No module named nose.tools\n```\n\nI realise that 2.0.9.dev0 is not installed by pip by default, due to being a dev version, but I'm getting gitpython as a transitive dependency via git-upstream, which has a pre-release constraint on gitpython:\n\n```\n$ rm -rf ~/tmp/test_gitpython; virtualenv ~/tmp/test_gitpython \u003e/dev/null; ~/tmp/test_gitpython/bin/pip install git-upstream | grep 'Collecting GitPython'\nCollecting GitPython!=0.3.2,\u003e=0.3.2.RC1 (from git-upstream)\n```\n","author":{"url":"https://github.com/desbonnm","@type":"Person","name":"desbonnm"},"datePublished":"2016-10-10T10:15:07.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":8},"url":"https://github.com/526/GitPython/issues/526"}