[Distutils] Re: [PEP 508] Clarification of URL References

2020-06-22 Thread w_minchin
> Does PEP 440 cover this any better for you? I actually think the example in PEP 440 are part of what caused my confusion, because all of them are also for *pip*: ``` pip @ file:///localbuilds/pip-1.3.1.zip pip @ file:///localbuilds/pip-1.3.1-py33-none-any.whl pip @ https://github.com/pypa/pip

[Distutils] [PEP 508] Clarification of URL References

2020-06-21 Thread w_minchin
PEP 508 allows for pointing to required packages using URL's. This is the except: A minimal URL based lookup:: pip @ https://github.com/pypa/pip/archive/1.3.1.zip#sha1=da9234ee9982d4bbb3c72346a6de940a148ea686 However, there is very little documentation, blog posts, etc on how to us