[Distutils] build a wheel with waf instead of setuptools

[David Cournapeau]

That's certainly possible, bento does exactly this. You would write a
setup.py that would like like:

import setuptools
from bento.distutils.monkey_patch import monkey_patch
monkey_patch()
setuptools.setup()

then you can do python setup.py install/build/sdist/etc... without actually
using distutils.

David


On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 8:46 AM, Chris Barker <chris.barker at noaa.gov> wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 7:21 AM, Daniel Holth <dholth at 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?
>
> -Chris
>
>
>
>
>
>>  > 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.
>>
>> Just a flag that tells pip it can't use the "install" command and has
>> to do package -> install package on an sdist.
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