[Distutils] Why I like eggs (or similar mechanisms) and my thoughts on future of buildout

[Jim Fulton]

On Sat, Aug 20, 2016 at 6:31 PM, Wes Turner <wes.turner at gmail.com> wrote:
...

> I may be optimistic, but should adding buildout support for wheel be more
> complicated than shelling out to pip with the correct, uhm, --prefix etc?
>

I'm open to shelling out, but pessimistic that it will turn out well. I
started with that approach initially with easy_install and it fell apart
quickly.  But when we get into it... who knows?

Jim

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