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

Piotr Dobrogost p at lists-2014.dobrogost.net
Tue Dec 2 14:09:59 CET 2014


On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 1:53 PM, Reinout van Rees <reinout at vanrees.org> wrote:
>
> The alternative is, like Marius said in his reply, to use virtualenv + pip +
> makefiles or so. And you'd have to add something that replaces the recipes.
> For that, I really like buildout :-)

It seems like building/installing python packages should be moved from
buildout's core into plain recipe so that different tools for this
task could be used. Even if this is possible I guess it's really major
change (and paradigm shift to some extent).


Regards,
Piotr


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