[Distutils] Canonical Repo URL: Make "pip install -e foo" work

[Leonardo Rochael Almeida]

Hi Thomas,

Besides figuring out where the repo url is, you have a second problem to
solve:

The command `pip install -e some/path` already has something
unpacked/checked-out in `some/path` to install in development mode.

In which folder would the command `pip install -e some.project`
unpack/checkout `some.project`?

Cheers,

Leo


On 21 March 2017 at 05:13, Thomas Güttler <guettliml at thomas-guettler.de>
wrote:

> AFAIK it is impossible to do this:
>
>  pip install -e foo
>
> You need to use the repo URL up to now:
>
>  pip install -e git+https://example.com/repos/foo#egg=foo
>
> AFAIK the fast/short implementation of "pip install -e foo" does
> not work, since pip can't access metadata of package foo without
> downloading
> the whole package. Or am I wrong - is this possible?
>
> But how cares for useless downloaded bytes? I don't care.
>
> It should be possible to download the whole package "foo",
> then look at the metadata which is provided by it. Take
> the canonical repo url, and then get the source from
> the repo.
>
> AFAIK there is no official way to define a "Canonical Repo URL" up to now.
>
> If I want to provide it for my custom packages. How could I do this?
>
> Regards,
>   Thomas Güttler
>
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