Is it possible to install a package located in a git repository?

[wrosko]

Hi, just like this ability in poetry does flit have an option for installing git repos?
python-poetry/poetry#835

Something like "ssh://git@private.instance.url:12345/organization/mypackage.git" added to the pyproject.toml

[wrosko]

@flying-sheep do you know if this is possible?

[wrosko]

Ah, duplicate question here #543

[takluyver]

Closing as a duplicate of #543.

[flying-sheep]

Yeah, the blog post linked there describes the difference between abstract and concrete dependencies.

The way I’d solve it is to set up a “Python simple API” server like this: https://pypicloud.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

There’s more low tech alternatives, like PλPI or just the following script using piprepo in CI, combined with some basic auth proxy:

python -m build
piprepo sync ./dist "s3://${bucket}/${bucket_path}"
aws ecs update-service --cluster "${cluster_name}" --service "${service_name}" --force-new-deployment

Then you can

1. upload packages to it: set up your CI to publish packages there (or publish them manually). You can use the classifier Private :: Do Not Upload to prevent accidentally uploading packages to pypi.org instead of your server

2. install packages from it or depend on it

   export PIP_EXTRA_INDEX_URL=https://$TOKEN@pypi.yourcompany.com/simple/`
   pip install mypackage # (or some package depending on it)

Here’s some more in depth stuff: https://medium.com/jobteaser-dev-team/python-packaging-how-do-we-manage-it-at-jobteaser-2bc8d1e9d206

[flying-sheep]

All this is a bit more complex than just adding a git URL, but will allow you to actually do dependency management. Very worth it.

[wrosko]

Awesome, thanks so much Phil! Hope you're well :)

[flying-sheep]

I am, I hope you too!