python setup.py install not working

[TheHeroBrine422]

full log of error:
Calebs-Mac:ftldat-master caleb$ python setup.py install
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "setup.py", line 8, in
version=get_git_version(),
File "/Users/caleb/Desktop/ftldat-master/get_git_version.py", line 90, in get_git_version
raise ValueError("Cannot find the version number!")
ValueError: Cannot find the version number!

[bwesterb]

Did you use git or did you download a ZIP from github?

[TheHeroBrine422]

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On Sun, Mar 8, 2015 at 4:21 AM, Bas Westerbaan notifications@github.com
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Did you use git or did you download a ZIP from github?

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#2 (comment).

[todlo]

'describe' wasn't working for me, so i changed it to '--version'... like so:

$ diff get_git_version.py.old get_git_version.py
41c41
<         p = Popen(['git', 'describe', '--abbrev=%d' % abbrev],
---
>         p = Popen(['git', '--version', '--abbrev=%d' % abbrev],

and it worked! :)

[KamodaP]

There's function get_git_version() that reads file "RELEASE-VERSION", which is missing and call

Popen(['git', 'describe', '--abbrev=%d' % abbrev],
                  stdout=PIPE, stderr=PIPE)

assumes you have a git command line installed and, actually, git project cloned locally. I'd recommend to move that into a param file or global variables.
Or update dependencies.
[EDIT]
Well you can't add it to dependencies and have it working since get_git_version is called before dependencies are checked (probably)

[Killbot69]

This is a terrible installation instructions