Re: Update PEP 508 to allow version specifiers

Nathaniel Smith <[email protected]>
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On Tue, Jan 29, 2019 at 12:30 AM Jan Musílek <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hello! I hope I'm addressing this issue to the right place. Pradyun Gedam suggested [1] to open the discussion here.
>
> PEP 508 dependency specification [2] is generally considered to be replacement for dependency links. However, version specifiers are missing from PEP 508, so I can't specify:
> package >= 10.0 @ https://github.com/owner/package.git

What would this do? I don't think there's any way for pip (or any
program) to look at a git repo and extract a list of which revisions
correspond to which python package versions. I guess you could have
some hack where you guess that certain tag strings correspond to
certain versions, but it seems pretty messy to me...

-n

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