[Distutils] Provisionally accepting PEP 517's declarative build system interface

[Chris Jerdonek]

On Mon, May 29, 2017 at 1:04 PM, Nathaniel Smith <njs at pobox.com> wrote:
> Ugh, sorry, fat-fingered that. Actual reply below...
>
> On Mon, May 29, 2017 at 12:56 PM, Nathaniel Smith <njs at pobox.com> wrote:
>> On Mon, May 29, 2017 at 12:50 PM, Donald Stufft <donald at stufft.io> wrote:
>>>
>>> To be honest, I’m not hardly going to feel particularly bad if one of the
>>> most compilation heavy packages that exist takes a whole 10 seconds to
>>> install from a VCS checkout.
>
> Rebuild latency is *really* important. People get really cranky at me
> when I argue that we should get rid of "editable installs", which
> create much greater problems for maintaining consistent environments,
> and that's only saving like 1 second of latency.

I don't recall this being discussed. Is support for editable installs
being considered for removal? Either way, what is the argument out of
curiosity?

--Chris