Build system: add cmake option to install requests

CMakeLists.txt

@@ -265,6 +265,10 @@ option(WITH_PYTHON_INSTALL_NUMPY "Copy system numpy into the blender install fol
 set(PYTHON_NUMPY_PATH            "" CACHE PATH "Python to python site-packages or dist-packages containing 'numpy' module")
 mark_as_advanced(PYTHON_NUMPY_PATH)
 
+if(UNIX AND NOT APPLE)
+	option(WITH_PYTHON_INSTALL_REQUESTS "Copy system requests into the blender install folder" ON)
+endif()
+
 # Cycles
 option(WITH_CYCLES					"Enable cycles Render Engine" ON)
 option(WITH_CYCLES_STANDALONE		"Build cycles standalone application" OFF)
@@ -2255,6 +2259,17 @@ if(WITH_PYTHON)
 			unset(_PY_VER_MAJOR)
 		endif()
 	endif()
+
+	if(WIN32 OR APPLE)
+		# pass, we have this in lib/python/site-packages
+	elseif(WITH_PYTHON_INSTALL_REQUESTS)
+		if(NOT EXISTS ${PYTHON_LIBPATH}/python${PYTHON_VERSION}/site-packages/requests)
+			message(WARNING "'requests' path could not be found in:\n"
+			                "'${PYTHON_LIBPATH}/python${PYTHON_VERSION}/site-packages/requests'\n"
+			                "WITH_PYTHON_INSTALL_REQUESTS option will be ignored when installing python")
+			set(WITH_PYTHON_INSTALL_REQUESTS OFF)
+		endif()
+	endif()
 endif()
 
 if(WITH_GCC_MUDFLAP)

source/creator/CMakeLists.txt

@@ -522,7 +522,19 @@ if(UNIX AND NOT APPLE)
 					PATTERN "*.a" EXCLUDE                   # ./core/lib/libnpymath.a - for linking, we dont need.
 				)
 			endif()
-			
+
+			# Copy requests, we need to generalize site-packages
+			if(WITH_PYTHON_INSTALL_REQUESTS)
+				install(
+					DIRECTORY ${PYTHON_LIBPATH}/python${PYTHON_VERSION}/site-packages/requests
+					DESTINATION ${TARGETDIR_VER}/python/${_target_LIB}/python${PYTHON_VERSION}/site-packages
+					PATTERN ".svn" EXCLUDE
+					PATTERN "__pycache__" EXCLUDE           # * any cache *
+					PATTERN "*.pyc" EXCLUDE                 # * any cache *
+					PATTERN "*.pyo" EXCLUDE                 # * any cache *
+					PATTERN "cacert.pem" EXCLUDE            # for now we don't deal with security
+				)
+			endif()
 			unset(_target_LIB)
 			
 		endif()