On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 10:20 AM, Donald Stufft <don...@stufft.io> wrote: > On July 25, 2014 at 10:03:01 AM, Daniel Holth (dho...@gmail.com) wrote: > > 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.. > > I don’t think there is any plans to tell pip *not* to use a setup.py and to > use a Wheel instead. Rather I think the plans are to enable pluggable > builders so that a sdist 2.0 package doesn’t rely on setup.py and could use > a waf builder (for instance) plugin.
Just a flag that tells pip it can't use the "install" command and has to do package -> install package on an sdist. _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
