[Distutils] Thank you for the ability to do `pip install git+https://...`

[Alex Grönholm]

I'm sorry if I offended anyone. I was just trying to point out that in 
the case of Github (or any other service that provides automated tarball 
generation) it's better to install from those rather than using the VCS 
integration plugins. Oh, and for the record, I just tested -- it does a 
deep clone at this time, which would be responsible for the slowness 
compared to installing from a tarball.

01.04.2016, 17:03, Nick Coghlan kirjoitti:
> On 28 March 2016 at 22:54, Alex Grönholm <alex.gronholm at nextday.fi> wrote:
>> You could always point pip to the automatically generated zip
>> (https://github.com/nchammas/flintrock/archive/master.zip). That way you
>> won't have to wait for git to pointlessly download your entire version
>> history when you just want to install something.
> I'd assume pip is doing shallow clones when installing from version
> control, and if that currently isn't the case due to lack of time for
> implementation and testing, it should be a relatively straightforward
> PR for someone to submit as a performance optimisation.
>
> It's also the case that the automatically generated zip archives are a
> GitHub specific feature rather than a general property of version
> control systems, so at least some folks are going to avoid depending
> on that service specific feature and instead favour the
> host-independent approach of using the relevant version control
> protocol.
>
> Regards,
> Nick.
>
> P.S. More generally: is a thread where someone is saying "Thanks for
> this feature!" *really* the best place to be telling them "you
> shouldn't be using that feature"? It's rare enough for maintainers of
> any open source project to hear a heartfelt "thank you" that it's at
> least worth considering taking other replies off list :)
>