Should ansible be a dependency?

[darrenmeehan]

Hi there,

I was wondering should ansible-lint have ansible as a dependency? It cannot function without it, so it makes sense to list it is a dependency. Is there any reason it is not?

The particular use-case I have is that I want to use pipx to install ansible-lint into its own virtual environment.
This currently doesn't work. I've not opened this as an issue in either pipx or ansible-lint as I'd like to investigate this a bit more first.

The following output shows ansible-lint unable to find ansible.

$ ansible-lint
ERROR    No module named 'ansible'
FATAL: ansible-lint requires a version of Ansible package >= 2.9, but none was found. Please install a compatible version using the same python interpreter. See https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/installation_guide/intro_installation.html#installing-ansible-with-pip

The following is pipx installing ansible-lint

pipx install --include-deps ansible-lint --force
Installing to existing venv 'ansible-lint'
⚠️  Note: cmark was already on your PATH at /usr/local/bin/cmark
⚠️  Note: pygmentize was already on your PATH at /usr/local/bin/pygmentize
  installed package ansible-lint 5.3.2, installed using Python 3.10.1
  These apps are now globally available
    - ansible-lint
    - cmark
    - pygmentize
done! ✨ 🌟 ✨

[nroach44]

Just thought I'd drop this in here, if you install ansible-lint, you can have your ansible tracked in the same venv with:

pipx inject ansible-lint ansible-core --include-apps

(if you don't already have an ansible / ansible-core install)