[Distutils] Are there any plans to move to pip/wheels in buildout?

[Jim Fulton]

On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 8:10 AM, Leonardo Rochael Almeida
<leorochael at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On 2 December 2014 at 10:53, Reinout van Rees <reinout at vanrees.org> wrote:
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>> Something I don't understand here is that there *is* a single version
>> list. And so it feels like it doesn't really matter that much if you just
>> lump all the packages together (like pip does).
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> FWIW, In the past I did mention that it would be nice if there was a way to
> specify a different `[versions]` section per part that would layered on top
> of the original `[versions]`. The APIs used could easily accommodate that,
> last I checked. I'm still waiting for the round tuits to implement it in a
> fork for a pull-request.

This works now.  If you specify specific versions in a part,
they override the versions list.


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>> I could imagine a buildout that just uses pip every time it has to install
>> a python package. Feeding pip the version list, of course. And then puts the
>> buildout.cfg mechanism on top of it.
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>> [...]
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> I could imagine a buildout that uses distlib to install wheels in a
> per-distribution directory (i.e. allowing multiple versions of the same
> wheel to coexist).

Yes.  Effectively eggs.

> These directories would be then added to sys.path in the
> script wrappers like buildout usually does.

Yup.  This is certainly an option.

My concern is that no one seems to be using distlib.

Jim

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