[Distutils] Re: Pipenv - Use system python lib for one package

2020-03-27 Thread Tzu-ping Chung
No, a Python package is more than the installed library you find in site-packages. If you know exactly what you want to install, you can try to repackage the library yourself by supplying the required metadata, and tell Pipenv to install from that instead. The simplest way would be to produce

[Distutils] Re: Next Pipenv Release

2020-03-27 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
Thanks Dan! Some further comments inline. On 3/25/20 4:33 PM, Dan Ryan wrote: 4. Documentation! Pipenv documentation, now at https://pipenv.pypa.io/, needs some serious rework. So if you have any skills in this area,the project would really benefit from a critical review here. A few specific

[Distutils] Re: Pipenv - Use system python lib for one package

2020-03-27 Thread Samuel Mutel
I spoke about debian packages but it's a python library installed by a package. So could we install a python library from the system python library folder? Le ven. 27 mars 2020 à 20:15, Tzu-ping Chung a écrit : > Hi, > > In short, no. Pipenv is designed to only manage Python packages, and >

[Distutils] Re: Pipenv - Use system python lib for one package

2020-03-27 Thread Tzu-ping Chung
Hi, In short, no. Pipenv is designed to only manage Python packages, and cannot be used to access a software that’s not available as a Python package. APT’s software package format (DEB) is significantly different from Python’s, and it is not possible to mix them together unless the tool is

[Distutils] Pipenv - Use system python lib for one package

2020-03-27 Thread Samuel Mutel
Hello, I have a pipfile like this. I would like to install python-apt library but not from pypi but from the system. Is-it possible? This python library is no longer supported on pypi but is supported in the package distribution. [[source]] name = "pypi" url = "https://pypi.org/simple;