On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 7:21 AM, Daniel Holth <dholth@gmail.com> wrote:
> This kind of thing will require us to implement a flag that tells pip
> "setup.py cannot install; go through wheel" which is somewhere in the
> plans..couldn't you write a file called "setup.py", with the core API (i.e setup.py build | install), but that called waf instead of distutils to do the actual work?or does pip doe more than simply call the setup.py script?-ChrisJust a flag that tells pip it can't use the "install" command and has> I don’t think there is any plans to tell pip *not* to use a setup.py and to
> use a Wheel instead. Rather I think the plans are to enable pluggable
> builders so that a sdist 2.0 package doesn’t rely on setup.py and could use
> a waf builder (for instance) plugin.
to do package -> install package on an sdist.
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