March 18, 2013
6:37 p.m.
On Mar 18, 2013, at 02:16 PM, Lennart Regebro wrote:
I still think it is unfortunate that we are starting to extend pip to be a tool for developers to create distributions. It would be better of pip was kept as an install tool, and we added the utilities for creating distributions separate.
+1. Doesn't this violate Nick's mission for killing `setup.py install` which IIUC is motivated by wanting to separate building and installing? I really want pip to just be about installing and use other tools to build source and binary distributions. -Barry