Build a wheel/egg and all dependencies for a python project

In order to stage python project within our corporation I need to make an installable distribution.

This should include:

An egg or whl for my project
An egg or whl for every dependency of the project
(optionally) produce a requirements.txt file listing all the installable components for this release

Is there an easy plug in, (e.g. an alternative to bdist_wheel) that will not only compile one wheel but also that project's components?

Obviously I can script this, but I was hoping that there might be a short-cut that builds the package + dependencies in fewer steps.

This needs to work on Python 2.7 on Windows + Linux.

Solution

With poetry you can define your dependencies and metadata about your project in a file in the root of your project, called pyproject.toml:

[tool.poetry]
name = "my-project"
version = "0.1.0"
description = "some longer description"
authors = ["Some Author <[email protected]>"]

[tool.poetry.dependencies]
python = "*"

[tool.poetry.dev-dependencies]
pytest = "^3.4"

To build your project as a wheel, execute poetry build

$ poetry build

Building my-project (0.1.0)
- Building sdist
- Built my-project-0.1.0.tar.gz

- Building wheel
- Built my-project-0.1.0-py3-none-any.whl

a dist/ folder is created with a wheel for your project.