pip install of tag 0.12 fails

[shareefj]

I'm guessing you've fixed something to do with the Git submodules that is still present in the latest tag you have available.

Collecting misoc (from -r requirements.txt (line 3))
  Cloning https://github.com/m-labs/misoc (to revision 0.12) to /tmp/pip-install-1whmjgce/misoc_10587c2327dd468cb9ae015eb90c3230
  Running command git clone --filter=blob:none --quiet https://github.com/m-labs/misoc /tmp/pip-install-1whmjgce/misoc_10587c2327dd468cb9ae015eb90c3230
  Running command git checkout -q 714ea6899b038c07b5a20f02a2172496486f9ef0
  Resolved https://github.com/m-labs/misoc to commit 714ea6899b038c07b5a20f02a2172496486f9ef0
  Running command git submodule update --init --recursive -q
  fatal: unable to access 'http://llvm.org/git/compiler-rt.git/': Maximum (20) redirects followed
  fatal: clone of 'http://llvm.org/git/compiler-rt.git' into submodule path '/tmp/pip-install-1whmjgce/misoc_10587c2327dd468cb9ae015eb90c3230/misoc/software/compiler_rt' failed
  Failed to clone 'misoc/software/compiler_rt'. Retry scheduled
  fatal: unable to access 'http://llvm.org/git/libunwind.git/': Maximum (20) redirects followed
  fatal: clone of 'http://llvm.org/git/libunwind.git' into submodule path '/tmp/pip-install-1whmjgce/misoc_10587c2327dd468cb9ae015eb90c3230/misoc/software/unwinder' failed
  Failed to clone 'misoc/software/unwinder'. Retry scheduled
  fatal: unable to access 'http://llvm.org/git/compiler-rt.git/': Maximum (20) redirects followed
  fatal: clone of 'http://llvm.org/git/compiler-rt.git' into submodule path '/tmp/pip-install-1whmjgce/misoc_10587c2327dd468cb9ae015eb90c3230/misoc/software/compiler_rt' failed
  Failed to clone 'misoc/software/compiler_rt' a second time, aborting
  error: subprocess-exited-with-error

Installing from master doesn't have this issue. Do you need to create a new tag that incorporates whatever the fix is?

[shareefj]

Actually, I just noted that the 0.12 tag is from 2018 so you've obviously dropped using tags? What's the best way to pick the latest stable release?

[sbourdeauducq]

Can you just use PYTHONPATH for your use case? MiSoC doesn't actually require anything from the python packaging systems.

[shareefj]

Of course we could use PYTHONPATH, but that defeats one of the main benefits of tagged releases. How do you currently version MiSoC?

[sbourdeauducq]

Most flows are based on Nix/Git these days so there's been little interest in releases.

[shareefj]

So if I wanted to checkout a Git tag of the latest release, what do I use?