Bug: Repeated `python3 setup.py install` leads to errors at startup, service loading

Steps to reproduce

When running

pip install -e .  && python3 setup.py install 

for the first time the python folder python3.10/site-packages/ contains and python3.10/site-packages/cryptoadvance/specterext/ contains

However running

pip install -e .  && python3 setup.py install 

again , now

• python3.10/site-packages/cryptoadvance/specterext/ contains which then raises the exception at specter start;

cryptoadvance.specter.specter_error.SpecterError: 
                Module cryptoadvance.specterext.liquidissuer.service  could not be found. This could have these reasons:

• python3.10/site-packages/ remains contains the same folders.

Cause

Running pip install -e . for the 2. time completely deletes the python3.10/site-packages/cryptoadvance folder (without noticing that it deleted the folders of some of the required packages).

Workaround

Currently I have to do pip uninstall of all services in python3.10/site-packages/cryptoadvance/specterext/ and rerun pip install -e . && python3 setup.py install .

Solutions?

• The services specterext-exfund, specterext-faucet, cryptoadvance-liquidissuer should NOT be located in cryptoadvance/specterext/

@k9ert: What do you think?

[k9ert]

Not sure why i couldn’t reproduce in the first place but now i can 😐

[relativisticelectron]

My current understanding: pip3 install -e . (or pip3 install . ) installs

• cryptoadvance.specter
• and dependencies like cryptoadvance-liquidissuer

python3 setup.py install then overwrites cryptoadvance.specter.

Calling pip3 install -e . again then notices that cryptoadvance.specter was modified, and then just deletes the whole folder, while not reinstalling the dependencies.

This leads to the following steps that seems to work:

1. pip install --require-hashes -r requirements.txt
2. python3 setup.py install

These 2 steps can be repeated without problem.