Re: Fwd: scripts/spdxcheck.py's third-party dependencies

On Tue, Jul 27, 2021 at 07:42:21AM +0100, Nicky Chorley wrote:
> Resending to linux-spdx.
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ---------
> From: Nicky Chorley <[email protected]>
> Date: Sun, 25 Jul 2021 at 20:35
> Subject: scripts/spdxcheck.py's third-party dependencies
> To: <[email protected]>, <[email protected]>
> 
> 
> Hi folks,
> 
> On linux-next (tag: next-20210723), running scripts/checkpatch.pl
> complains, with e.g.
> 
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>    File "scripts/spdxcheck.py", line 10, in <module>
>      import git
> ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'git'
> 
> and the same for ply if you don't have those libraries installed. Would it
> be OK to add a pip requirements.txt file, so that people can use that to
> install those and not have to manually go hunt them down? In future,
> if other Python scripts needed third-party libraries, those could be
> listed in the file too (I had a quick look and didn't see any used in the
> others).
> 
> Apologies if this has already been covered somewhere - I couldn't see
> archive links for linux-spdx on vger.kernel.org.

How can you add a requirements.txt file for a single script in a
directory of other scripts?

thanks,

greg k-h