[Distutils] Fwd: Re: PEP 517 again

xoviat xoviat at gmail.com
Fri Aug 25 01:18:16 EDT 2017


And one more thing: it would probably be prescient to require a
get_backend_info hook that returns the name and url of the backend so that
pip can direct people where to file bugs when there are problems.

On Aug 24, 2017 11:52 PM, "xoviat" <xoviat at gmail.com> wrote:

> Actually after reading the email that Nathaniel referenced, I disagree
> with Nick's position on in-tree builds. It's absolutely necessary because
> the tree may be read only and it's enforceable by pip through a simple
> recursive list.
>
> On Aug 24, 2017 11:33 PM, "xoviat" <xoviat at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Just this morning, Paul said the following:
>>
>> That step's the problem. If the frontend does that it can potentially
>> be copying a lot of unneeded stuff (VCS history, for example). We
>> tried that with pip and it was a major issue. That problem is the
>> *whole point* of all the discussions about the various proposals that
>> ended up with build_tree.
>>
>> I took that to mean that we were trusting the backend to do the right
>> thing. And most people agreed with that. I don't personally care but there
>> does seem to be some miscommunication here.
>>
>> On Aug 24, 2017 11:24 PM, "Nathaniel Smith" <njs at pobox.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On Thu, Aug 24, 2017 at 9:17 PM, xoviat <xoviat at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> > > I'm *not* OK with banning in-tree builds in the spec, since that's
>>> > > both unnecessary and unenforceable
>>> >
>>> > Well then either we can trust the backend or we cannot. If we can,
>>> then this
>>> > is both necessary and enforceable. If not, then we're back to pip
>>> copying
>>> > files. You can't make and argument that it's okay to trust build_sdist
>>> but
>>> > not build_wheel.
>>>
>>> I think at this point everyone has made their peace with the pip
>>> developers' decision that they want to keep copying files -- at least
>>> for now -- and that's just how it's going to be. This email has a more
>>> detailed discussion of the options, their "threat model", and the
>>> tradeoffs:
>>>
>>>     https://mail.python.org/pipermail/distutils-sig/2017-July/03
>>> 1020.html
>>>
>>> I can see an argument for adding language saying that build_sdist
>>> SHOULD avoid modifying the source tree if possible, and MAY write
>>> scratch files to the sdist_directory.
>>>
>>> -n
>>>
>>> --
>>> Nathaniel J. Smith -- https://vorpus.org
>>>
>>
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