On 28 April 2016 at 10:43, Steve Kowalik <ste...@wedontsleep.org> wrote: > Hi, > > Currently, pip supports use of direct references[1][2] in requirement > files, which means it includes code that will deal with downloading > files over HTTP, or git, etc. > > setuptools does not have this support, and in order for setuptools to > completely implement PEP 508 support, we should come up with a plan > what to do when setuptools encounters a requirement that uses a direct > reference. > > The options that I can see are: > 1) When egg_info is run, exit with an error saying "Please don't do > that" > 2) Warn about the requirement, and that we will just depend on it, but > drop the direct reference. > 3) Add support to setuptools. Personally, I don't like this plan, but > perhaps it's easy.
What about putting the reference into the egg_info, warning that setuptools itself cannot deal with direct references, and for easy-install itself drop back to using the name? I'm thinking we probably do want egg-info to have direct references - so that the use case of a private network of packages all hosted on e.g. github, can work with pip. Donald, WDYT? -Rob _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
