31 Aug
2017
31 Aug
'17
5:57 p.m.
On 31 August 2017 at 16:41, Chris Barker - NOAA Federal <chris.barker@noaa.gov> wrote:
As to using pip to build wheels -- there is good reason to do that now, but in s post PEP 517 world, one would call the build system directly to build a wheel-- after all, all pip should be doing is calling the build system anyway.
I disagree - "pip wheel" will still be useful, for example to obtain a wheel from PyPI either by downloading or download & build. Also just to have a unified interface that works regardless of the project backend - if a project switches from setuptools to flit, for example, it would be good if deployment and test scripts didn't have to change. So I still expect pip wheel to be useful in a post-PEP 517 world. Paul