pip: Using --target with --editable results in "internal" error

It seems like --target is not supported when using --editable at the same time. It would be nice to have it working. Meanwhile there should be some better diagnostic as

c:\>pip install -t z:\1 -e git+https://github.com/kennethreitz/requests.git#egg=requests results in

Obtaining requests from git+https://github.com/kennethreitz/requests.git#egg=requests
  Updating c:\python\virtualenv\test\src\requests clone
  Running setup.py egg_info for package requests

Downloading/unpacking certifi>=0.0.7 (from requests)
  Running setup.py egg_info for package certifi

Downloading/unpacking oauthlib>=0.1.0,<0.2.0 (from requests)
  Running setup.py egg_info for package oauthlib

Downloading/unpacking chardet>=1.0.0 (from requests)
  Running setup.py egg_info for package chardet

Downloading/unpacking rsa (from oauthlib>=0.1.0,<0.2.0->requests)
  Running setup.py egg_info for package rsa

    warning: no files found matching 'README'
Downloading/unpacking pyasn1>=0.0.13 (from rsa->oauthlib>=0.1.0,<0.2.0->requests)
  Running setup.py egg_info for package pyasn1

Installing collected packages: requests, certifi, oauthlib, chardet, rsa, pyasn1
  Running setup.py develop for requests
    usage: -c [global_opts] cmd1 [cmd1_opts] [cmd2 [cmd2_opts] ...]
       or: -c --help [cmd1 cmd2 ...]
       or: -c --help-commands
       or: -c cmd --help

    error: option --home not recognized
    Complete output from command c:\python\virtualenv\test\Scripts\python.exe -c "import setuptools; __file__='c:\\python\\virtualenv\\test\\src\\requests\\setup.py'; exec(compile(open(__file__).read().replace('\r\n', '\n'), __file__, 'exec'))" develop --no-deps --home=c:\users\piotr\appdata\local\temp\tmp3abskl:
    usage: -c [global_opts] cmd1 [cmd1_opts] [cmd2 [cmd2_opts] ...]

   or: -c --help [cmd1 cmd2 ...]

   or: -c --help-commands

   or: -c cmd --help



error: option --home not recognized

----------------------------------------
Command c:\python\virtualenv\test\Scripts\python.exe -c "import setuptools; __file__='c:\\python\\virtualenv\\test\\src\\requests\\setup.py'; exec(compile(open(__file__).read().replace('\r\n', '\n'), __file__, 'exec'))" develop --no-deps --home=c:\users\piotr\appdata\local\temp\tmp3abskl failed with error code 1 in c:\python\virtualenv\test\src\requests
Storing complete log in C:\Users\Piotr\AppData\Roaming\pip\pip.log

About this issue

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State: closed
Created 12 years ago
Reactions: 1
Comments: 22 (3 by maintainers)

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I’d add that this is an issue for Google Appengine developers who need to install their dependencies in a directory in the app root but also need to deploy an editable dependency in a local checkout as part of a QA process. As it sits, the editable would need to be manually symlinked which is cumbersome.

blainegarrett on Jun 22, 2017

I just experienced the same issue. As suggested by @jezdez you can work around this by doing the following (without using --editable that is):

git+ssh://user@github.com/some-user/some-repo.git#egg=Foo

yorickpeterse on Jun 11, 2013

i also ran into this error right now. This seems to happen on any package if --target and --editable are combined: pip calls setup.py develop --home ..., but --home is only applicable with setup.py install.

So, in the end i found out that using the --src option with editable packages instead of --target does what i want.

Maybe --target should have the same effect as --src when --editable is specified or it could present the user with an error message and maybe point the user to --src.

henzk on Feb 5, 2013