Request for DEV Version of PINT on PyPI for Dependency Checks

[JPGlaser]

Hey All,

Just putting this here on behalf of the Timing Analysis dev team. In order to correctly get our dependencies set up, we need to have an official dev branch set-up on PyPI for PINT. This is because using git repos for dependencies got depreciated in pip v19 with no alternative put in its place (see: pypa/pip#5898). Since both PINT and timing_analysis are in very active development, we'd like to be able to have new users keep up to date with both via pip.

If PINT could have a dev version linked to the github's commit record (see: https://blog.xoxzo.com/2012/03/20/releasing-dev-version-of-your-package-to-pypi/), then we can add in a dependency for pint-pulsar>=dev into our setup.py while we develop the two pieces of code, leaving version management to pip as our end-users would likely do.

Let me know your thoughts on this.

~ Joe Glaser

[paulray]

Seems like a good idea. When I tag 0.8.0 I'll try to set that up as well. I didn't quite follow that blog post, but I can play around with it.

[paulray]

Joe, if you have a PyPI username, I'm happy to add you as a maintainer of the PINT project, especially if you want to figure out how to make this work!

[JPGlaser]

@paulray , I should be able to get it figured out. My PyPI account is under AstroGlaser.

~ Joe

[paulray]

I invited you to be a maintainer on pint-pulsar. Did you get the invite?

[paulray]

Joe, now 0.8.1 is released. Do you want to try to implement this?

[paulray]

I think this is OBE. I think the preferred method for direct installing the dev version of PINT is:

pip install git+git://github.com/nanograv/pint --user --upgrade

Maybe this should be added to the docs?