Keyword arguments seem like a much better approach.
— John
On Jan 20, 2014, at 11:23 AM, Stefan Karpinski <ste...@karpinski.org> wrote:
> This makes me wonder if the API should change. Maybe keyword arguments for
> both the package name and branch?
>
>
> On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 1:25 PM, Ivar Nesje <iva...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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 <ste...@karpinski.org>
> wrote:
> That did successfully install the package. However, as per the documentation
> for 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
> <sharmila....@gmail.com> 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
>
>
>
