Question

I understand that one can use pip to install packages from svn etc. ala:

-e svn+http://django-grappelli.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/grappelli#egg=grappelli

However, in this case, grappelli has no setup.py, so the installation fails.

How can I achieve something like:

svn co http://django-grappelli.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/grappelli ../pinax-env/lib/python2.6/site-packages/grappelli/

Yet, putting the command in a pip requirements file, such as project.txt and running

pip install -r requirements/project.txt

Answer 1

There is no way to install a python package if there is no stored information about it. Pip relies on setup.py to get package’s information.

grappelli has no setup.py in the project, so, unfortunately it is not possible to install it via pip/easy_install.

PS: It if it really important to you, fork the project and add a setup.py (or send them a diff patch). I am sure it will help not only you. Maybe you can take django_compressor as an example.