On 28 March 2016 at 22:54, Alex Grönholm <[email protected]> wrote: > You could always point pip to the automatically generated zip > (https://github.com/nchammas/flintrock/archive/master.zip). That way you > won't have to wait for git to pointlessly download your entire version > history when you just want to install something.
I'd assume pip is doing shallow clones when installing from version control, and if that currently isn't the case due to lack of time for implementation and testing, it should be a relatively straightforward PR for someone to submit as a performance optimisation. It's also the case that the automatically generated zip archives are a GitHub specific feature rather than a general property of version control systems, so at least some folks are going to avoid depending on that service specific feature and instead favour the host-independent approach of using the relevant version control protocol. Regards, Nick. P.S. More generally: is a thread where someone is saying "Thanks for this feature!" *really* the best place to be telling them "you shouldn't be using that feature"? It's rare enough for maintainers of any open source project to hear a heartfelt "thank you" that it's at least worth considering taking other replies off list :) -- Nick Coghlan | [email protected] | Brisbane, Australia _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
