installation from pip in virtualenv fails

[rskolasinski]

dolfin is avialable in PyPi but impossible to install inside virtualenv

using ''' pip install dolfin --allow-external dolfin --allow-unverified dolfin ''' as suggested by pip end in attempt to make global installation

[rskolasinski]

More details:

Package becomes available (pip starts to download it) when using:

pip install dolfin --allow-external dolfin --allow-unverified dolfin

but it ends with

(tst)rskolasinski:~> pip install dolfin --allow-external dolfin --allow-unverified dolfin
Collecting dolfin
  dolfin is potentially insecure and unverifiable.
/home/rskolasinski/tst/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip/_vendor/requests/packages/urllib3/util/ssl_.py:79: InsecurePlatformWarning: A true SSLContext object is not available. This prevents urllib3 from configuring SSL appropriately and may cause certain SSL connections to fail. For more information, see https://urllib3.readthedocs.org/en/latest/security.html#insecureplatformwarning.
  InsecurePlatformWarning
/home/rskolasinski/tst/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip/_vendor/requests/packages/urllib3/util/ssl_.py:79: InsecurePlatformWarning: A true SSLContext object is not available. This prevents urllib3 from configuring SSL appropriately and may cause certain SSL connections to fail. For more information, see https://urllib3.readthedocs.org/en/latest/security.html#insecureplatformwarning.
  InsecurePlatformWarning
  Downloading https://bitbucket.org/fenics-project/dolfin/downloads/dolfin-1.5.0.tar.gz (9.7MB)
    100% |████████████████████████████████| 9.7MB 52kB/s 
    Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info:
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "<string>", line 18, in <module>
    IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/tmp/pip-build-GY17l_/dolfin/setup.py'

    ----------------------------------------
    Command "python setup.py egg_info" failed with error code 1 in /tmp/pip-build-GY17l_/dolfin

Like it would try do it globally even if I run this inside virtualenv.

[Johannes Ring]

Yes, DOLFIN is registered on PyPI, but you cannot pip install it. Someone has to write a setup.py file to make it work, but no one is working on that AFAIK.

[Chris Richardson]

Nobody is likely to work on this at present, but please feel free to submit a pull request.