[Distutils] something like pkg==dev in distutils2?

[Tarek Ziadé]

On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 2:59 AM, Aljoša Mohorović
<aljosa.mohorovic at gmail.com> wrote:
> pip enables "pip install mypackage==dev" if link (with
> #egg=mypackage-dev) exists in long_description for pypi.
> are there some plans for an official way to do this?

No plans, but if you want this you could work on a proposal for d2 + PEP 345.

I didn't look at the pip code for this, but if it works like
easy_install, it looks for specific links in the (long_)description of
the package that have an #egg=project-dev fragment. If found, it's
used to download the dev version and install it.

In Distutils2, I would rather have a specific metadata for this,
rather than links to look for in the project description.

I am not sure about the name, an initial thought would be:

Development-Download-URL:

   A string containing the URL from which the development version of
the distribution
   can be downloaded.  (This means that the URL can't be something like
   ".../BeagleVote-latest.tgz", but instead must be ".../BeagleVote-0.45.tgz".)

   Note: the development version must be a source distribution.


Regards
Tarek



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