On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 2:57 PM, Daniel Holth <[email protected]> wrote: > Is it too convenient? The tool knows how to find sources, compile > them, and install them. It will delegate all the work to the actual > build system. If pip was a pure installer without a way to invoke a > build system then it wouldn't be able to install from sdist at all.
All of that should be implemented in a library that pip can use. So this is only a question of a conceptual difference between different tools. It makes no sense to have a tools for developers that does everything including running building, running tests and packaging, and another tool that does nothing but installs, and creates wheel packages. Making wheels should be a part of the tool using for packaging, not the tool used for installing. //Lennart _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
