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Asked: 2026-05-14T02:45:32+00:00

I’m writing a Python open-source app. My app uses some open source Python libraries.

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I’m writing a Python open-source app. My app uses some open source Python libraries. These libraries in turn use other open-source libraries.

I intend to release my code at Sourceforge or Google Code but do I need to include the sources of the other libraries? Is this a good practice? …or should I simply write this information into a README file informing the use about the other required libraries.

I’ve placed all these libraries into a libs sub folder in my source directory. When checking my code into SVN, should I use something called svn:externals to link to other sources?

Is there a way to dynamically update my libraries to the latest version or is this something I have to do manually when I release a new version.

My sincerest apologies if my question sounds vague but I’m pretty lost in this matter and I don’t know what to Google for.

Thanks all.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Use the pip requirements text file.

    Just name the packages [and optionally version]

    Ask the users to execute the following command in the README. (If you provide an install script, then you should call this within that; In that case you should also use Virtualenv)

    pip install -r requirements.txt

    and all the libraries you included in the requirements will be installed in that environment.

    You can also include svn path, git path, mercurial path, or bzr path in the pip requirements.

    Refer to the documentation: http://pip.openplans.org/requirement-format.html

    If all your libraries are available from svn, and all your package users install it from the svn, you can also use svn externals; But pip is a lot more cleaner.

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