Hello,

I tried to install a git dependency since the master branch include needed fixes for the development.
Then I received the following error:

[RuntimeError]                                                 
Unable to retrieve the package version for /tmp/pypoetry-git-self-attentive-parserXXXXX

Based on this error I found the following issue describing a similar problem: #673

I tried to add setuptools as dev dependency and installed it as suggested.
This doesn't helped me and I still recieved the same error message.

Then I took a deeper look into the setup.py of this project (https://github.com/nikitakit/self-attentive-parser/blob/master/setup.py#L23)

There I have seen that setup( was called as setuptools.setup( instead of the most common way to import the setup command directly.

After changing this to setup on my fork everything worked fine.

• [x ] I have searched the issues of this repo and believe that this is not a duplicate.
• [x ] I have searched the documentation and believe that my question is not covered.

Issue

Now my question:

Is this an issue with ast parsing and can this be solved in poetry itself or should I ask the project owner to change its setup.py?