<div dir="ltr">So are we going for a "primarily isolation" approach then where builds are only isolated on the first level, but subsequent levels share the same build environment?</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2017-08-22 10:23 GMT-05:00 Jim Fulton <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jim@jimfulton.info" target="_blank">jim@jimfulton.info</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">I didn't mention (nor do I recall anyone mentioning) venvs.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><br></div></font></span><div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">Jim</font></span><div><div class="h5"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Aug 22, 2017 at 11:15 AM, Matt Joyce <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:matt@nycresistor.com" target="_blank">matt@nycresistor.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">venvs within venvs... terrifying concept.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="m_5340958454569241040h5">On Tue, Aug 22, 2017 at 11:02 AM, Jim Fulton <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jim@jimfulton.info" target="_blank">jim@jimfulton.info</a>></span> wrote:<br></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="m_5340958454569241040h5"><div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Aug 22, 2017 at 9:23 AM, Daniel Holth <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dholth@gmail.com" target="_blank">dholth@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><p dir="ltr">Isn't this a special case of needing . on sys.path when building a package? Then the same version of setuptools that is being packaged builds itself.</p></blockquote><div>No. The issue for us it wasn't setuptools itself, but it's dependencies and those dependencies conflicted with dependencies of of packages we were installing *and* those packages importing these dependences (indirectly) in their setup scripts. Setup scripts that import the thing they're about to install, generally to get the version :(, is something I'd love to see go away.</div><span class="m_5340958454569241040m_-6897822434577115054HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><br></div><div>Jim</div><div><br></div></font></span></div><span class="m_5340958454569241040m_-6897822434577115054HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">-- <br><div class="m_5340958454569241040m_-6897822434577115054m_4449727793865654801m_-8191940174940104761gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature">Jim Fulton<br><a href="http://jimfulton.info" target="_blank">http://jimfulton.info</a><br></div>
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