Find sdist when project only provides wheels

[jayvdb]

If the package doesnt provide an sdist, or the sdist doesnt contain tests, usually I need find the git repo from the pypi metadata, find its tags, and grab a tarball from the git hosting provider (usually GitHub of course).

It would be lovely to have this process automated as an optional feature.
Probably label the tarball slightly differently so it can be easily seen that it was not from pypi.

[jayvdb]

https://pypi.org/project/pipgh/ could be useful for this, but likely needs quite some enhancements to be suitable, esp https://github.com/ffunenga/pipgh/issues/1.

https://github.com/jantman/versionfinder also provides some useful bits.

[AbdealiLoKo]

I think it would be a good idea to support pip/pypi fully and then get back to some of these enhancements of fetching it from github/gitlab/other sources.

[jayvdb]

Aye, but this is the itch I have.

[jayvdb]

And it is itched! https://github.com/jayvdb/pypidb