From 563564ea53937f1b404f7b23c970101bce5f7a5b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Alex Xu <alexkurosakimh3@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2021 09:28:05 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Create requirements.txt

---
 INSTALL.md       | 36 ++++--------------------------------
 requirements.txt |  4 ++++
 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 32 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 requirements.txt

diff --git a/INSTALL.md b/INSTALL.md
index fb74c2d..3fe4eed 100644
--- a/INSTALL.md
+++ b/INSTALL.md
@@ -13,7 +13,8 @@ You can run `mangle` using 64 bit Python 2.7,
 but won't be able to build a binary with `py2exe`,
 and any performance difference is negligible.
 
-Install virtualenv globally, if you don't already have it.
+Install [virtualenv](https://virtualenv.pypa.io/en/stable/) 
+globally, if you don't already have it.
 
 ```
 > pip install virtualenv
@@ -24,31 +25,7 @@ and install all dependencies in a venv in the mangle directory, e.g.
 ```
 ...\mangle> virtualenv venv
 > venv\Scripts\activate
-(venv) > pip install Pillow
-(venv) > pip install reportlab
-```
-
-It can be pretty difficult to install PyQT4 from source,
-so prebuilt binaries are available at
-http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/#pyqt4
-
-You need 
-`PyQt4-4.11.4-cp27-cp27m-win32.whl`
-
-which you can install after placing the file
-in the `mangle` folder via
-
-```
-(venv) > pip install PyQt4-4.11.4-cp27-cp27m-win32.whl
-```
-
-So your final `pip freeze` can look like:
-
-```
-(venv) > pip freeze
-Pillow==6.2.2
-PyQt4 @ file:///.../mangle/PyQt4-4.11.4-cp27-cp27m-win32.whl
-reportlab==3.5.59
+(venv) > pip install requirements.txt
 ```
 
 You can run the GUI via
@@ -63,12 +40,7 @@ so you can simply click on the `mangle.pyw` file to run it.
 ### Optional
 
 To actually build a stand-alone `.exe`, install
-
-```
-(venv) > pip install py2exe_py2
-```
-
-and install 
+ 
 [Microsoft Visual C++ Compiler for Python 2.7](https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=44266)
 
 A standalone binary can be created in the `dist` folder via
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..0b36984
--- /dev/null
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+Pillow==6.2.2
+py2exe-py2==0.6.9
+PyQt4 @ https://download.lfd.uci.edu/pythonlibs/w4tscw6k/cp27/PyQt4-4.11.4-cp27-cp27m-win32.whl
+reportlab==3.5.59