Hi Stefan,
Thank you for responding. As an extension of my understanding
of Pkg.checkout, I assumed that Pkg.clone(url, name) would clone the branch
'name' for the repo at 'url'. My bad. It still installs only the master
branch. Right now there doesn't seem to be support to install a branch or
tag through Pkg.clone().
I want to use John's fork because it is DBI complaint and supports prepared
statements and parameter binding which the official version doesn't.
I just now read John Myles White's response too. While I accept his idea,
would it not be useful to have the ability to install from the branch or
tag of an unregistered Package? If you feel that is a valid feature, I
would be happy to help add it.
Regards,
Sharmila
On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 9:43 PM, Stefan Karpinski <[email protected]>wrote:
> That did successfully install the package. However, as per the
> documentation for
> Pkg.clone<http://docs.julialang.org/en/latest/stdlib/pkg/?highlight=pkg.clone#Base.Pkg.clone>,
> it did so under the package name "jmw". Did you mean for the second
> argument to be a branch name? You can checkout a specific branch after
> cloning the package using the Pkg.checkout command. Also, SQLite is an
> official, registered package, so installing it via Pkg.clone is a bit
> unusual. Do you need John's fork for some particular reason?
>
>
> On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 8:10 AM, Sharmila Gopirajan Sivakumar <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> I want to install a package from a github branch, specifically,
>> https://github.com/johnmyleswhite/SQLite.jl/tree/jmw . I tried the
>> following command
>>
>> Pkg.clone("https://github.com/johnmyleswhite/SQLite.jl.git";, "jmw")
>> INFO: Cloning jmw from https://github.com/johnmyleswhite/SQLite.jl.git
>> INFO: Computing changes...
>> INFO: No packages to install, update or remove.
>>
>> Julia is not able to install the package. Is it possible to locally
>> checkout the code and install from source?
>>
>> Thank you.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Sharmila
>>
>
>
