On 2016-04-01 17:16:15 +0300 (+0300), Alex Grönholm wrote: > I'm sorry if I offended anyone. I was just trying to point out > that in the case of Github (or any other service that provides > automated tarball generation) it's better to install from those > rather than using the VCS integration plugins. Oh, and for the > record, I just tested -- it does a deep clone at this time, which > would be responsible for the slowness compared to installing from > a tarball.
Whether this can work depends entirely on the project being installed. Some don't check package metadata into their repos in a form consumable by pip, and require an additional sdist build step which may need information from the VCS itself or manually provided during that step. A prime example of this is projects using PBR, which will want access to Git tag and commit details to determine the package version. With a local clone of the project's Git repository (not just a tarball/zip snapshot of its content) you can build a pip-supported sdist, but otherwise you may need to manually determine and set version information in the calling environment or by editing to be able to then generate a usable sdist from the raw source tree. -- Jeremy Stanley _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
