On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 5:51 AM, Daniel Holth <dho...@gmail.com> wrote: > Here's a little something I cooked up based on the waf (a build > system) playground/package example. It's a build script for wheel > (what else) that builds a .whl for wheel when you run "waf configure" > and then "waf package" with waf 1.8.0. I've tested it in Python 2.7. > > Waf is a build system that, unlike distutils, won't fall over > immediately when you try to extend it. One of its features is support > for building Python extensions, and it is itself written in Python. > > Right now for expedience instead of generating the METADATA or > entry_points.txt from setup() arguments it just copies them from files > at the root, and the command "waf dist" (for producing sdists) > includes too many files but that is easy to fix. In particular I liked > using ant_glob() a lot better than MANIFEST.in. The wscript does not > use MANIFEST.in. > > https://bitbucket.org/dholth/wheel/src/1bbbd010558afe215a01cfd238a26da42ad60802/wscript > > If there are any interested waf-wizards out there then we could take > the wheel building feature and pull it out of the individual wscript, > refine it a bit, and have another non-distutils way to publish Python > packages. > > Daniel Holth
This kind of thing will require us to implement a flag that tells pip "setup.py cannot install; go through wheel" which is somewhere in the plans.. _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
