CLIP Install

[afiaka87]

Have you found a way to reliably install OpenAI's CLIP via setup.py?

There's a namespace collision with another pip package which predates the OpenAI package that makes this difficult in my experience.

[afiaka87]

Once we get that working - this would be a great PR to include in the larger DALLE-pytorch codebase. It is part of the original paper - after all.

[mehdidc]

Hey @afiaka87, ah ok I see, did not notice for the name collision, thanks, found this https://stackoverflow.com/questions/60414753/how-to-install-githttps-from-setup-py-using-install-requires as a possible solution where we would give the repo link of CLIP directly in install_requires of setup.py, but it only works with pip install . , not python setup.py install

[afiaka87]

I have one last idea, but I'm now thinking it may not work actually because it works with git clone, but not necessarily pip

cd clip_rerank;
git status # make sure you're all up to date
git submodule add https://github.com/openai/CLIP.git;
git status # should have a 'CLIP' folder now. 
git commit -am "add the OpenAI CLIP repo to the project as a submodule"
git status 
git push

Then maybe you could set an entry point located at CLIP.clip.clip (is that right?) but instead of naming it clip you just name it openai_clip. Problem solved. Except one thing. git doesn't automatically pull all submodule files down by default, you have to pass it --recurse-submodules. That means that setuptools will need to support that feature of git and I haven't checked yet it if it does. Perhaps though?