Correct workflow for local development

[neworderofjamie]

I check tonic out from git, build with pip and get errors about:

Versioning for this project requires either an sdist"
Exception: Versioning for this project requires either an sdist tarball, or access to an upstream git repository. It's also possible that there is a mismatch between the package name in setup.cfg and the argument given to pbr.version.VersionInfo. Project name tonic was given, but was not able to be found.

I (eventually) figured out you can fix it by setting the PBR_VERSION environment variable but that's far from clear from the error message. Perhaps the problem is that git isn't in my path (Windows) but I wonder if this could be handled more gracefully

[sheiksadique]

The versioning of this package is done based on the gut history. So it is critical that you use git clone and not download as a zip. Could you please try this and let us know if the problem persists.

[neworderofjamie]

I did git clone but, as I say, git isn't in my path (which I think is a pretty normal thing on Windows). Maybe there should be some fallback for local development or at least a more user-friendly error.

[fabrizio-ottati]

Don't you know that developing in Windows is illegal?!?!

JK, installing git with pip should solve this problem though.