Bigchaindb: python setup.py install fail.

[ppiyakk2]

I tried to install bigchaindb from source and i got an error like this.

Environment : OS X (10.11.04), python 3.5

error: Setup script exited with error in BigchainDB setup command: 'install_requires' must be a string or list of strings containing valid project/version requirement specifiers

Fortunately, 'pip3 install bigchaindb' works good.

[ppiyakk2]

PR #237 can solve this error

[vrde]

Hi @nexusz99, unfortunately some Python distributions come with a very old version of setuptools.

Can you try to run:

$ pip install --upgrade setuptools

and tell me if it resolves the problem? It should install setuptools-20.10.1.

Related to #237, the ~ is to pin a compatible release of gunicorn.

[ppiyakk2]

My pip environment was " pip (1.5.6) setuptools (3.6)".

And after run "pip install --upgrade setuptools", the problem solved!!

Thanks a lot. It was my fault.

Thanks.

[ppiyakk2]

How about check the version of setuptools before install?

[vrde]

How about check the version of setuptools before install?

That's an interesting idea, will think about it and update this issue soon.

[ttmc]

Resolved by PR #276 and PR #279