Wow, it really can install from a directory-named-like-a-wheel with the --no-index flag passed. I'm sad to say that is totally unintentional, but bizarrely interesting.
On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 2:52 PM, Evgeny Sazhin <eug...@sazhin.us> wrote: > On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 2:32 PM, Daniel Holth <dho...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 2:15 PM, Evgeny Sazhin <eug...@sazhin.us> wrote: >>> On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 1:24 PM, Daniel Holth <dho...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> One thing that might be useful would be to develop the "unpacked >>>> wheel" which is currently undefined but would be deliberately >>>> identical to a site-packages with just one wheel extracted into it. >>>> You wouldn't have to argue or worry about the zip issue. >>>> >>>> I like the way npm puts everything into a directory >>>> ~/.npm/packagename/0.4.2/ ... for example, gem is similar. If you >>>> really wanted to go to town you could figure out how to do virtualenvs >>>> with hardlinks or reflinks instead of copies (conda can). >>>> >>>> But as has been repeated you won't find robust support for this in the >>>> existing code. >>>> >>> >>> I just tested it - it works! Yeah! >>> >>> I put an unzipped wheel of my API project into a local wheelhouse - >>> pip was able to install from it into my virt env for the client >>> project. >>> Then i created a wheel with __main__.py for the client project and put >>> an unzipped version in wheelhouse. >>> >>> After that i issued: >>> PYTHONPATH=~/wheelhouse/projectAPI.whl; python >>> ~/wheelhouse/projectClient.whl >>> >>> It worked! >>> >>> Is this workflow OK to rely on in future? >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Eugene >> >> The only request is that you don't name the directory ".whl" because >> that is a little bit confusing. >> >> "Directories with only one package installed into them" will continue to >> work. > > > pip can't find the distribution then - so it must have the name > totally matching wheel spec, i guess. _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
