[Distutils] Comments on PEP 426

[Nick Coghlan]

On 4 September 2013 23:25, Paul Moore <p.f.moore at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 4 September 2013 14:18, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
>> If such projects publish wheel files (modulo us getting the Linux file
>> naming problem sorted), then the only people the build issues are
>> likely to hit are those that force builds from source (like
>> zc.buildout and Linux distributions).
>
> Personally, I don't expect to see published wheels for some time yet.
> So building from source (even if only once to make a locally published
> wheel) will remain an important issue, and if we need
> setuptools-compatibility to build wheels, that will mean projects
> getting told "your project's setup.py fails when I try to do pip
> wheel".
>
> But as I say, this is all based on "if such projects exist"...

I was under the impression pip *already* forced the use of setuptools
(to ensure "--record" is available), so why would "pip wheel" provoke
any more bug reports than "pip install"?

Cheers,
Nick.

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