[Distutils] PyPi’s predictable download url

[Alex Grönholm]

Wes Turner kirjoitti 27.07.2017 klo 02:36:
>
>
> On Wednesday, July 26, 2017, Paul Moore <p.f.moore at gmail.com 
> <mailto:p.f.moore at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     On 26 July 2017 at 15:52, Alexander Belopolsky
>     <alexander.belopolsky at gmail.com> wrote:
>     > On Wed, Jul 26, 2017 at 10:21 AM, Nick Coghlan
>     <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
>     >> .. the most robust option is to instead let a dedicated client
>     tool like pip
>     >> handle the problem:
>     >>
>     >> * pip install: retrieve *and* install a component
>     >> * pip download: just retrieve the files without installing them
>     locally
>     >
>     > This is a sound advise in general, but the specific issue here
>     is how
>     > to bootstrap virtualenv for python 2.7 on the systems with
>     > missing/broken pip?  Note that "ensurepip" may not be an option
>     for a
>     > user without root privileges.
>     >
>     > The bootstrap options offered at
>     > <https://virtualenv.pypa.io/en/stable/installation/
>     <https://virtualenv.pypa.io/en/stable/installation/>> don't work.
>     > There is an open issue about this on Github:
>     > <https://github.com/pypa/virtualenv/issues/1042
>     <https://github.com/pypa/virtualenv/issues/1042>>. A comment on that
>     > issues suggests "curl
>     > https://pypi.python.org/simple/virtualenv-15.0.1.tar.gz
>     <https://pypi.python.org/simple/virtualenv-15.0.1.tar.gz>", but that
>     > does not work either.
>
>     I didn't get the impression that this was the problem the OP was
>     hitting, and it's certainly not what I'd recommend for him, but you
>     should be able to just clone the virtualenv repo and run ```python
>     virtualenv.py``` to get started.
>
>
> A shallow clone would minimize the bandwidth cost:
>
> $ git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/pypa/virtualenv
>
Doesn't work for projects using setuptools_scm, as they require the 
latest tag to get the version info.
> If all you need to do is bootstrap a latest pip and virtualenv, 
> there's always get-pip.py?
>
> - Docs: 
> https://pip.pypa.io/en/stable/installing/#installing-with-get-pip-py
> - Src: https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py
>
> $ python get-pip.py --user
> $ ~/.local/bin/pip install --user virtualenv virtualenvwrapper
>
>
>
>     Paul
>     _______________________________________________
>     Distutils-SIG maillist  - Distutils-SIG at python.org
>     https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
>     <https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig>
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Distutils-SIG maillist  -  Distutils-SIG at python.org
> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/distutils-sig/attachments/20170727/6826304a/attachment-0001.html>