On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 2:50 PM, Lennart Regebro <rege...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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
We have a different definition of build tools if installing an sdist that has a C extension doesn't make pip a build tool already. Clearly we're just going to disagree on this one. _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig