On 4 September 2013 23:25, Paul Moore <p.f.mo...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 4 September 2013 14:18, Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com> wrote: >> If such projects publish wheel files (modulo us getting the Linux file >> naming problem sorted), then the only people the build issues are >> likely to hit are those that force builds from source (like >> zc.buildout and Linux distributions). > > Personally, I don't expect to see published wheels for some time yet. > So building from source (even if only once to make a locally published > wheel) will remain an important issue, and if we need > setuptools-compatibility to build wheels, that will mean projects > getting told "your project's setup.py fails when I try to do pip > wheel". > > But as I say, this is all based on "if such projects exist"...
I was under the impression pip *already* forced the use of setuptools (to ensure "--record" is available), so why would "pip wheel" provoke any more bug reports than "pip install"? Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
