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.
01.04.2016, 17:03, Nick Coghlan kirjoitti:
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 :)
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