Cannot install dev branch from pip

[justjkk]

I want to use pip to install from the dev branch. But it fails because setup.py is not found in the repository root.

The following syntax is used to install straight from git repository:

sudo pip install git+git://github.com/daviddrysdale/python-phonenumbers.git@dev

Is it possible to move setup.py to the repository root to fix this? Alternatively, is it possible to run dev branch without maintaining a git clone of the repository on the target system?

[daviddrysdale]

Hmm.

On the one hand, this is clearly pip's problem – which has affected a few other projects in the past. There might even be a pip fix in the works.

On the other hand, multiple folk would apparently like this, so maybe I should take the hint.

On the third hand, there's a chance that the Python codebase might someday get folded into the master upstream Google codebase (which is why the code is in a python/ subdir in the first place), and in that structure having a setup.py in the top-level directory probably won't work.

Need to ponder more...

[daviddrysdale]

That setup.py seems to allow the pip command to work.

[justjkk]

@daviddrysdale, thanks for the quick fix. Pip install works now.