facebook/scribe — Issue #50: Python scribe module isn't installable with pip
Author: bdarnell
Created: 2012-01-05 21:02:13+00:00
State: open

It would be great if an "sdist" tarball of the scribe python module were made available with each release, since that would make it possible to install the module with python-standard tools like pip and easy_install. It would be nice if it were listed on pypi as well, although someone's already claimed the name "scribe" there with another package, so I guess you'd need to rename it as well. Just having the tarball available would be enough, since you can list urls explicitly in a pip requirements list.

Quick step-by-step instructions:
$ cd lib/py
$ python setup.py sdist

This will create a file lib/py/dist/scribe-2.0.tar.gz (name and version number taken from setup.py), which you can then upload to e.g. github's download area.