Installation via pip

[nikolay]

It would be nice to upload icdiff to PyPI for easier installation on Linux.

[yprez]

+1

In the meantime, this works fine:

pip install git+https://github.com/jeffkaufman/icdiff.git

[nikolay]

@yprez Yeah, that's how I use it for now, but would still be better to upload to PyPI.

[colonelpanic8]

+1

[alaindomissy]

+1

[amirouche]

icdiff all the things 👍

[vnitinv]

@jeffkaufman If you are fine I can take initiative to upload it to PyPI. Even though I will be uploading it you only will be seen as the owner out there as it fetch details from setup.py

[albfan]

Why this is still open? https://pypi.python.org/pypi/icdiff

[nikolay]

@albfan @jeffkaufman Because it's outdated: current version is 1.9, not 1.8.6 (which is not official anyway), and that is not published by @jeffkaufman himself, i.e. the PyPI package is risky to be used.

[albfan]

@nikolay better then to close this (as was already done) and open another issue to upgrade pip. no?

[nikolay]

@albfan Not really! We have no idea who's published that (user vnitinv). Advising people to use untrusted code is a bad advice! Especially when they have published a version that's not official, i.e. v1.8.6, not present in the releases' list here!

I know you guys really love to close issues and move over, this pseudo-agile mentality, in this case, can hurt people.

[albfan]

So you want an upgrade issue and a sign pipy module issue.

Only meta issues with lot of goals can hurt, everything else can be splitted to simple tasks. If maintainer sees this issue closed why you don't see it the same way? publish to pipy is done, issues are related of what you ask for, not about all you think "install via pip" means.

Note: For a possible trust pipy issue: https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/79326/which-security-measures-does-pypi-and-similar-third-party-software-repositories. seems pipy is untrusted by default so nothing prevents a user on pipy to get a name like this maintainer.

@vnitinv Can you upgrade pipy to 1.9.0?

[vnitinv]

@albfan it's pending from my end only. Will be done by this weekend.