On Mon, Aug 28, 2017 at 9:21 AM, Donald Stufft <donald@stufft.io> wrote:
Donald, what do you think? IIRC, you were most keen on going sdist->wheel where possible, and I don't think you've commented on Paul's suggestion yet (apologies if I've overlooked a response).
I still think it should, and prefer pip to attempt to build a sdist prior to building a wheel when we’re coming from a VCS directory. I think that is going to be the most robust mechanism with the least amount of surprising behavior for end users.
why? even as it stands, doesn't setuptools dump everything into the build dir anyway? The "Creating of an sdist" really seems like a build-system problem, not a package manager problem to me.
"when we’re coming from a VCS directory."
whether this is a VCS directory or some other source seems to me like something pip should not need to know... -CHB -- Christopher Barker, Ph.D. Oceanographer Emergency Response Division NOAA/NOS/OR&R (206) 526-6959 voice 7600 Sand Point Way NE (206) 526-6329 fax Seattle, WA 98115 (206) 526-6317 main reception Chris.Barker@noaa.gov