Meltano

but trying to understand how that works - like what all is inherited? just the variant I selected?

and do I have to inherit from an existing extractor?

lol - <@U06CCB0EUBC> - haven't found a way to do it

Do you have an example meltano.yml file and error we could look at to help you?

so it looks like if I change the pip url after i run the add extactor that will work

```### TEMPLATE (SQLSERVER) 
  - name: tap-mssql
    variant: buzzcutnorman
    pip_url: git+<https://github.com/BuzzCutNorman/tap-mssql.git>

### DW #1 (SQLSERVER) 
  - name: tap-mssql--dw1
    inherit_from: tap-mssql
    variant: buzzcutnorman
    pip_url: git+<https://github.com/BuzzCutNorman/tap-mssql.git>```

```### SQLSERVER CQV LOGSHIPPER -- WORKS
  - name: tap-mssql-diff
    inherit_from: tap-mssql
    variant: wintersrd
    pip_url: tap-mssql```

that doesn't work -- which is what I got when I ran

```meltano add extractor tap-mssql-diff --inherit-from tap-mssql --variant wintersrd```

so I think that command should have put the pip url into the yaml file for wintersrd but instead it just put `tap-mssql`

I'm guess that because wintersrd is the default

however if I go and find the pipurl for wintersrd and put that in the pip_url that does seem to work

1. Can you share the full `meltano.yml`  file you have 
2. The error you're getting and the command you run to get that error

```  - name: tap-mssql--diff
    inherit_from: tap-mssql
    variant: wintersrd
    pip_url: git+<https://github.com/wintersrd/pipelinewise-tap-mssql.git>```

so all good now I think - just not behaving as expected by placing the wrong thing in the pip url when using the CLI -- but I do understand its an edge case

I think the CLI assumed I my intital inherit_from was using the default wintersrd and put tap-mssql into the pipurl. This doesn't work if your inherit from is the non default (like buzzcutnorman variant)

Yes I have experienced this too with target-postgres

<https://github.com/meltano/meltano/issues/8074#issue-1871933358>

updating this thread - <https://github.com/meltano/meltano/issues/6731>