[Distutils] Comments on PEP 426

[Paul Moore]

On 4 September 2013 14:27, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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"?

It won't, but at the moment the reports are likely to be that *pip* is
where the error lies. We're saying that such reports will in future be
redirected at the project. That is the change. (It may be that it's
simply changing "can't fix" to "won't fix" - I don't know how
traditionally pip deals with such reports, if indeed it has ever had
any).

There's no point in worrying though until we have evidence of such a
project actually existing. If no-one wants to try to check "likely
candidates" in advance, let's just wait for the bug reports if any.

Paul