How to install package not in site-packages of virtualenv and put command in requirements.txt that will install this package from local dir?

Question

I have some django packages like django-oscar. I need to install it with pip and then edit code & revise.

I'm tried to install it through setup.py deploy and to make .egg-info. Then I understand that pip doesn't have feature to install packages through .egg-info.

I also tried to install package from local directory using -e /path/to/package, but pip doesn't allow me install from directory. It message me: --editable=src/django-oscar-master/oscar/ should be formatted with svn+URL, git+URL, hg+URL or bzr+URL

Then I'm tried to install through pip install django-oscar --no-index --find-links=file://src/django-oscar-master/ and similar commands. It always message me: Could not find any downloads that satisfy the requirement django-oscar

How to install package not in site-packages of virtualenv and put command in requirements.txt that will install this package from local dir?

Answer 1

This isn't really what pip was designed to do. You should post your version of django-oscar to github, then reference that in your pip requirements.txt

Or if you don't want to have it hosted remote you might as well just include it in your project directory as you would a Django app you are making.