[Distutils] moving things forward (was: wheel including files it shouldn't)

[Nathaniel Smith]

On Thu, May 5, 2016 at 3:18 PM, Chris Barker <chris.barker at noaa.gov> wrote:
> On Thu, May 5, 2016 at 2:10 AM, Nathaniel Smith <njs at pobox.com> wrote:
>>
>> ...The main thing I want to point out though, is that all of these
>> problems you're raising are complications caused entirely by wanting
>> to avoid build isolation in the name of simplicity. If each package
>> gets its own isolated build environment, then it can depend on
>> whatever it wants without any danger of collision with the ambient
>> environment.
>
>
> You do know that we're on our way to re-writing conda, now, don't you? :-)
>
> I think we need to be careful of scope-creep...

conda did not invent the idea of creating separate python environments
for different tasks :-)

-n

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