On 3 June 2017 at 03:14, Nathaniel Smith <njs@pobox.com> wrote:
> So far my belief is that packages with expensive build processes are
> going to ignore you and implement, ship, document, and recommend the
> direct source-tree->wheel path for developer builds. You can force the
> make-a-wheel-from-a-directory-without-copying-and-then- I may be misunderstanding you, but it's deeply concerning if you'reinstall-it
> command have a name that doesn't start with "pip", but it's still
> going to exist and be used. Why wouldn't it? It's trivial to implement
> and it works, and I haven't heard any alternative proposals that have
> either of those properties. [1]
saying "as a potential backend developer, I'm sitting here listening
to the discussion about PEP 517 and I've decided not to raise my
concerns but simply to let it be implemented and then ignore it".
OTOH, I'm not sure how you plan on ignoring it - are you suggesting
that projects like numpy won't support "pip install numpy" except for
wheel installs[1]?