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

[Jim Fulton]

On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 9:12 AM, Donald Stufft <donald at stufft.io> wrote:
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>> On Dec 3, 2014, at 9:01 AM, Jim Fulton <jim at zope.com> wrote:
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>> - Implementing and maintaining packaging code isn't really all that
>>  interesting to me and, I'd hazard to guess, to anyone else on the
>>  buildout team.  Buildout has more packaging code than I ever wanted
>>  to write.  It does largely because it needed policies and features
>>  not provided by easy_install. (This is not meant to disparage
>>  easy_install, which was a ground-breaking tool.)
>
> If you can enumerate what buildout needs or wants from a packaging tool that would be useful to keep in mind going forward.

Great idea. I'll do that.

Jim

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