On Tuesday, July 25, 2017, Nick Timkovich <prometheus...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 25, 2017 at 1:45 PM, Aleks Bunin <b...@enlnt.com > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','b...@enlnt.com');>> wrote: > >> I’m writing installation instructions for a package and have a question: >> what is the correct predictable URL for the package? >> > > I would guess you need to start from the API (e.g. > https://wiki.python.org/moin/PyPIJSON) and go wherever it says. > $ pip download pkgname><ver Determines the package URL. https://pip.pypa.io/en/stable/reference/pip_download/#examples https://github.com/pypa/pip/blob/master/pip/commands/download.py Would this solve?: - [ ] ENH: pip.commands.download: --only-print-url > If writing your own automated thing, you could access the API yourself, or > just delegate it to pip. For user-facing instructions, I would highly > suggest having them do "pip install X" rather than have them download a > tarball, extract it, find and run setup.py. If you want to pin it at a > version, you can do something like: > > pip install "virtualenv==15.1.0" > pip install "django>=1.11,<1.12" # for a range of versions > > Nick > > >
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