I'm working on a package that requires sh. This package is not supported on Windows. For Windows, I use the old package sh was forked from, pbs, and rename it to sh in my namespace.
How can I create a setup.py that will properly install pbs on Windows and sh on other platforms?
EDIT: After some research, it turns out my question was specific to the new wheel format as my answer reflects. I'll ask a different question in the future if I can't figure out how wheels are supposed to work.
Ok, it turns out my original solution was correct:
# setup.py
...
setup(
...
install_requires=["pbs" if os.name == 'nt' else "sh"]
...
)
The reason this recently broke was due to releasing in the new wheel format. My understanding is that this new format does not ship a setup.py with your package and handles dependencies using some other means.
Until I understand how to ship a wheel with conditional dependencies, I just won't produce wheels for this project.