Can't you just do
>Pkg.clone("https://gitub.com.....","pkgname";)
>Pkg.checkout("pkgname","branch")
Ivar
kl. 19:18:23 UTC+1 mandag 20. januar 2014 skrev Sharmila Gopirajan
Sivakumar følgende:
>
> 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]<javascript:>
> > 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] <javascript:>> 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
>>>
>>
>>
>
