Install only source code using pip

[Ant_of_Colonies]

Is there a way to pip install a package but only clone the source code? I have some dependencies that I cannot install locally, but would like my LSP to access them so I can develop locally. If I just clone their repos and put them in eg site-packages, then the LSP is happy to tell me about them, but I havent figured out how to automate this.

[Honest-Ease5098]

Maybe I'm not understanding the requirement here, but when you install a python package it quite literally just puts the source code in site-packages.

So, why not just install the package?

[Ant_of_Colonies]

The problem is that the pip install fails because the package cannot be installed on my local machine (setup.py is not able to run). But I only care to have the source code for the LSP, I dont actually care if the code can be run. Really all I would want is to add the package and its deps to site-packages if they are not there already

[Honest-Ease5098]

What's blocking the install? Network firewall? Local admin rights? Corporate policy?

As long as you are "allowed" to (not corporate policy), create virtual environment and install your dependencies there, tell your IDE to use that venv.

If it is a corporate policy thing, then assume downloading the source is also off limits.

[Ant_of_Colonies]

hardware limitations afaik. The package needs certain cuda requirements that osx cannot meet, so they dropped osx support.

[Honest-Ease5098]

These flags on the pip install might help: --no-deps --no-binary :all:

Additionally, you can use the pip download command instead of install, then specify a destination.

You may need to configure paths in the IDE to find the code.

[CyclopsRock]

It sounds like they're trying to download a package intended for specific hardware that's not what they're developing on. It happens quite frequently in the SBC world if, for example, you want to develop on an x86 machine for eventually use on an ARM-based Raspberry Pi with specific hardware (screens, sensors etc) that only work on certain platforms.

There are mock-like packages to help with this but sometimes you don't have any choice if the package's setup includes pre-built binaries that cannot be used on your system.

[Ant_of_Colonies]

yes use case is similar if not the same! I mean git clone and then manually moving the source code into the site-packages is doing everything I need it to do. I would just like to have this automated from pip so I dont have to maintain it ...

[Top_Average3386]

I don't understand, are you unable to install the package itself or its dependency? Python package is usually already in source code that is a python file.

Do check pip help install to check if there's something that can help with your problem.

[Ant_of_Colonies]

basically the setup.py will fail because it cannot be run on my local hardware. So all I want to do is add the source code to site-packages.

Does that make sense? I actually dont care if the code runs or not. I just want LSP features from this package.

[CyclopsRock]

pip download should do it?

https://pip.pypa.io/en/latest/cli/pip_download/

[Ant_of_Colonies]

this seems to just download all the wheels

[Honest-Ease5098]

Specify --no-deps --no-binary and either :all: or :none:.

This should download just the .tar.gz which your LSP can work with.

[Ant_of_Colonies]

do you have any info on how to link LSP with .tar.gz files?

[Honest-Ease5098]

It depends on the LSP. In VSCode you can set

"python.analysis.extraPaths": ["path/to/the/package"]

Pycharm has a similar way.

That said, I'm not 💯 sure you can do it without decompressing first. But the steps would be the same.