Semantic versioning with urls

[cesarob]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

We were wondering if we could use semantic versioning with url. I found this https://stackoverflow.com/questions/73984925/specify-dependency-version-for-git-repository-in-pyproject-toml.

The author got the answer that is not possible because it is not supported in pep-0508

Describe the solution you'd like

wouldn't be pretty nice to be able to have semantic versioning with an url? It will avoid the usage of a private artifacts repository.

[frostming]

We are not going to invent something that isn't specified in the PEP standards. If you want to extend the standard, it may be a better choice to ask at https://discuss.python.org/c/packaging/ and draft a new PEP for that. Then PDM will follow the standard after it is accepted. Yeah, that is a long period though.

[cesarob]

Thanks for pointing to the proper location for discussion.

[cesarob]

Searching for information about the topic I added a link I found in a pip issue that links to a thread were the topic was dicussed: pypa/pip#5898.

I find handy to avoid to have an index server, but the conclusion for now is if you need this, install an index server.