[Distutils] PEP 438, pip and --allow-external (was: "pip: cdecimal an externally hosted file and may be unreliable" from python-dev)

[Stefan Krah]

Paul Moore <p.f.moore at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm not quite sure how you expect this will work, but it's probably
> important that you get involved with the various packaging PEPs. The
> only way I can see such a solution working with pip would be if you
> have a customised setup.py. As the general trend is towards binary
> installs using wheels, with pip eventually deprecating sdist installs
> and running setup.py directly,

To me that sounds like a lot of work for many package authors. Is it
possible to reconsider the deprecation?


Stefan Krah