Thanks for information. I think that's enough to me. I'm gonna check all URLs in package data and if anyone match to VCS i clone it. If not fallback to regular package installation.
On Sat, Mar 12, 2016 at 3:46 PM Nick Coghlan <[email protected]> wrote: > On 12 March 2016 at 20:44, Alexander Walters <[email protected]> > wrote: > > I agree, it would be nice if everyone used git (or any of a small set of > > VCS), and all the packages on pypi listed their repositories in the > > metadata. If that were the case, this tool might already exist. In the > > current state of things, though, i don't think it makes much sense to > > produce a general purpose tool for this. > > We don't place any particular requirements on the development > practices of projects publishing their releases through PyPI, so > there's no requirement for a public VCS URL to even exist for a > project, let alone for it to be mentioned in the project metadata. > > That said, since project URLs do make it possible for projects to > share that metadata if they want to, this is a situation where a > "checkout-pypi-project" that gained popularity might provide more > incentive for maintainers to provide that metadata and keep it up to > date. As a fallback for projects without that metadata, searching > popular hosting sites like GitHub, BitBucket, GitLab and even > SourceForge, would provide some initial links to investigate. > > Cheers, > Nick. > > -- > Nick Coghlan | [email protected] | Brisbane, Australia >
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