I'm installing this package into a virtualenv using virtualenvwrapper and pip with this command:
pip install -e git+git://github.com/mr-stateradio/django-exchange.git#egg=django_exchange-master
Interestingly the package is then placed into a src folder, and not into the site-packages folder which I would have expected. The package is placed into this folder:
<path-to-my-virtual-env>/testenv/src/django-exchange-master/exchange
Instead of this:
<path-to-my-virtual-env>/testenv/lib/python2.7/site-packages
I assume something is wrong with the pip install command I'm using or with the setup.py of the package.
The -e
option tells pip to install packages in “editable” mode. If you remove the -e option, pip will install the package into <venv path>/lib/Python_version/site-packages
. Don't forget to remove the packages inside <venv path>/src
, because python looks for the packages inside <venv path>/src
first.
pip supports installing from Git, Mercurial, Subversion and Bazaar, and detects the type of VCS using url prefixes: “git+”, “hg+”, “bzr+”, “svn+”.
e.g
$ pip install -e git+https://git.repo/some_pkg.git#egg=SomePackage # from git
$ pip install -e hg+https://hg.repo/some_pkg.git#egg=SomePackage # from mercurial
$ pip install -e svn+svn://svn.repo/some_pkg/trunk/#egg=SomePackage # from svn
$ pip install -e git+https://git.repo/some_pkg.git@feature#egg=SomePackage # from 'feature' branch
VCS projects can be installed in editable mode (using the –editable option) or not.
<venv path>/src/SomeProject
in virtual environments, and <cwd>/src/SomeProject
for global installs. The –src
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