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4 changes: 2 additions & 2 deletions dependencies.rst
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Expand Up @@ -63,12 +63,12 @@ When we publish this to PyPI, calling ``pip install funniest`` or similar will a
Packages Not On PyPI
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Sometimes you'll want to use packages that are properly arranged with setuptools, but aren't published to PyPI. In those cases, you can specify a list of one or more ``dependency_links`` URLs where the package can be downloaded, along with some additional hints, and setuptools will find and install the package correctly.
Sometimes you'll want to use packages that are properly arranged with setuptools, but aren't published to PyPI. In those cases, you can directly specify in ``install_requries`` with the syntax ``package_name @ URL`` (checkout PEP 508 for syntax) the URLs where the package can be downloaded, along with some additional hints, and setuptools will find and install the package correctly.

For example, if a library is published on GitHub, you can specify it like::

setup(
...
dependency_links=['http://github.com/user/repo/tarball/master#egg=package-1.0']
install_requires=['repo @ git+http://github.com/user/repo/']
...
)