Installing pip-compile

[josegonzalez]

Seems that the future branch hasn't been merged in, so pip-compile is still very much a WIP and not installable unless you specify a branch and install from git directly. Is that intended?

[svetlyak40wt]

What is wrong with installation right from the git?

[josegonzalez]

I'd prefer using pypi rather than git installations. One issue is that certain pip versions are pure fail at installing from git (recently fixed actually, but broken since setuptools 1.2.1).

[brutasse]

The issue is that the future branch isn't completely ready. pip-compile works fine (although apparently not with most recent pip versions) but pip-sync is missing.

An option would be to ship the future branch with only the pip-compile script as it's already very useful. pip-review from master can already be replaced with pip list --outdated (although there's no interactive mode). And we can always work on pip-sync for a future version.

Any toughts on this @nvie?

[josegonzalez]

Which versions of pip do not currently work? (also pip is a POS, but that's a separate issue)

[nvie]

Yes, I'm hoping to allocate some time somewhere soonish to implement pip-sync on the future branch, merge that into master and then release pip-tools 1.0.