On Fri, Oct 2, 2015 at 5:39 PM, Donald Stufft <[email protected]> wrote: > ``pip install path/to/directory/with/setup.py/in/it/``
In particular I install most of my packages from source these days by cd'ing into the source and $ pip install . That's all it takes. Works with -e too. Erik > On October 2, 2015 at 5:38:29 PM, Chris Barker ([email protected]) wrote: >> I can't seem to find a way to pip install from a source dir -- not a >> tarball. >> >> Why would I want to do that? >> >> In this case, it's because I'm trying to build conda packages for python >> packages that have compiled C code, and are not using setuptools. >> >> On Windows, you need to use setuptools in order to use the "MS compiler for >> Python 2.7". So a straight "setup.py build" fails. >> >> But pip injects setuptools, so that "pip install" does work. But conda has >> already unpacked the source distribution, so I'd like to point pip at that, >> and can't find a way to do that (I could have sworn it was possible...) >> >> Do I have to build an sdist, and then point pip at that?? >> >> -CHB >> >> >> _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
