Hi All, I get that when we do

meltano install

it creates and manages different virtual environment acc to taps and targets requirements. but is there a way to override it so the tap will use it's parent's python env (the python virtual environment in which we run

meltano install

)?

You can use the executable plugin definition to point taps/targets to any exe you want. You may need to noop the pip_url plugin definition (maybe there's a better way here but I do something like

cowsay

https://pypi.org/project/cowsay/

Hi @visch shouldn't executable be pointed to custom tap repo like below.

in the same-level as meltano.yml

while the actual binary executable gets populated in

.meltano/extractors/{extractor}/venv

plugins:
  extractors:
  - name: tap-gdrive
    namespace: "tap_gdrive"
    pip_url: -e tap-gdrive
    executable: tap-gdrive

Executable literally means the executable that will be ran as a part of that plugin. So yes it can execute from wherever you want it to, including your main venv

Got it, thanks!