[Distutils] PEP 517: Bootstrapping setuptools

[xoviat]

So are we going for a "primarily isolation" approach then where builds are
only isolated on the first level, but subsequent levels share the same
build environment?

2017-08-22 10:23 GMT-05:00 Jim Fulton <jim at jimfulton.info>:

> I didn't mention (nor do I recall anyone mentioning) venvs.
>
> Jim
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> On Tue, Aug 22, 2017 at 11:15 AM, Matt Joyce <matt at nycresistor.com> wrote:
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>> venvs within venvs... terrifying concept.
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>> On Tue, Aug 22, 2017 at 11:02 AM, Jim Fulton <jim at jimfulton.info> wrote:
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>>>
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>>> On Tue, Aug 22, 2017 at 9:23 AM, Daniel Holth <dholth at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Isn't this a special case of needing . on sys.path when building a
>>>> package? Then the same version of setuptools that is being packaged builds
>>>> itself.
>>>>
>>> No. The issue for us it wasn't setuptools itself, but it's dependencies
>>> and those dependencies conflicted with dependencies of of packages we were
>>> installing *and* those packages importing these dependences (indirectly) in
>>> their setup scripts.  Setup scripts that import the thing they're about to
>>> install, generally to get the version :(, is something I'd love to see go
>>> away.
>>>
>>> Jim
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