On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 2:50 PM, Lennart Regebro <regebro@gmail.com> wrote:
On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 6:09 PM, Daniel Holth <dholth@gmail.com> wrote:
In my view the fact that pip creates an installation as an artifact of installing from a source package is equivalent to creating a wheel, given that wheel is a format defined as a zip file containing one installation of a distribution. Both operations equally ruin pip's reputation as being an installer instead of a build tool.
How installing something can ruin the reputation as an installer is beyond me.
Instead all installation should have an intermediate, static, documented binary representation created by the build tool that is later moved into place by the install tool. I would be pleased if "pip install" lost the ability to natively install sdists without that intermediate step.
That's a separate issue, but I disagree with that as well.
//Lennart
We have a different definition of build tools if installing an sdist that has a C extension doesn't make pip a build tool already. Clearly we're just going to disagree on this one.