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

[Daniel Holth]

Clearly it should spin up a Gentoo VM from scratch each time. No half
measures.

On Thu, May 5, 2016, 19:32 Nathaniel Smith <njs at pobox.com> wrote:

> 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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