[Distutils] easy_install and svn

[Phillip J. Eby]

At 10:21 AM 11/9/2006 +0100, Thomas Heller wrote:
>Bob Ippolito schrieb:
> > On 11/8/06, Thomas Heller <theller at ctypes.org> wrote:
> >> In the easy_install docs is mentioned (at the end):
> >>
> >>   Added subversion download support for svn: and svn+ URLs, as well as 
> automatic recognition of HTTP subversion URLs
> >>
> >> How does this work?  Is it possible to install a package from an svn 
> repository, when the repository resides
> >> (read-only) at an http: URL?
> >
> > It works exactly as you'd expect..
> >
> > $ easy_install http://svn.red-bean.com/bob/simplejson/trunk
> > [...]
>
>Cool.  I had tried something like
>   easy_install -i http://svn.red-bean.com/bob/simplejson/trunk
>or so, but it didn't work.
>
>So, does it make sense to register even unreleased packages with pypi, 
>with the
>svn url?

Yes, but don't put it in the Download URL or Homepage; instead, include the 
URL in the "long description" with a "#egg=whatever-1.0" tacked on the 
end.  See:

http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/setuptools#making-your-package-available-for-easyinstall

for more info.  Setuptools itself has two #egg links to subversion in its 
PyPI page, allowing you to install setuptools==dev (the 0.7 trunk) and 
setuptools==dev06 (the 0.6 branch) as well as the current "release" version.