On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 6:09 PM, Daniel Holth <dho...@gmail.com> wrote: > In my view the fact that pip creates an installation as an artifact of > installing from a source package is equivalent to creating a wheel, > given that wheel is a format defined as a zip file containing one > installation of a distribution. Both operations equally ruin pip's > reputation as being an installer instead of a build tool.
How installing something can ruin the reputation as an installer is beyond me. > Instead all > installation should have an intermediate, static, documented binary > representation created by the build tool that is later moved into > place by the install tool. I would be pleased if "pip install" lost > the ability to natively install sdists without that intermediate step. That's a separate issue, but I disagree with that as well. //Lennart _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
