List runtime dependencies in requirements.txt

More and more packages are listing their dependencies in
requirements.txt which make it trivial to maintain and install them.

4 files changed, 13 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/MANIFEST.in b/MANIFEST.in
index 89f5b92d..95b2e883 100644
--- a/MANIFEST.in
+++ b/MANIFEST.in
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ include LICENSE
 include CHANGES
 include AUTHORS
 include README
+include requirements.txt
 
 graft git/test/fixtures
 graft git/test/performance
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index d2a858bf..0b5f5a2a 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -14,16 +14,20 @@ The object database implementation is optimized for handling large quantities of
 * Mock by Michael Foord used for tests
     - Tested with 1.0.1
 
+The list of dependencies are listed in /requirements.txt. The installer takes care of installing them for you though.
+
 ### INSTALL
 
 If you have downloaded the source code:
 
     python setup.py install
-    
-or if you want to obtain a copy more easily: 
+
+or if you want to obtain a copy from the Pypi repository:
 
     pip install gitpython
-    
+
+Both commands will install the required package dependencies.
+
 A distribution package can be obtained for manual installation at:
 
     http://pypi.python.org/pypi/GitPython
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..67f5eb74
--- /dev/null
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+# Remember to update README.md
+gitdb>=0.5.1
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index e7c927b1..58a763e4 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -16,6 +16,8 @@ v = open(path.join(path.dirname(__file__), 'VERSION'))
 VERSION = v.readline().strip()
 v.close()
 
+with open('requirements.txt') as reqs_file:
+    requirements = reqs_file.read().splitlines()
 
 class build_py(_build_py):
     def run(self):
@@ -73,7 +75,7 @@ setup(name = "GitPython",
       package_data = {'git.test' : ['fixtures/*']},
       package_dir = {'git':'git'},
       license = "BSD License",
-      install_requires='gitdb >= 0.5.1',
+      install_requires=requirements,
       zip_safe=False,
       long_description = """\
 GitPython is a python library used to interact with Git repositories""",