On Mon, Dec 1, 2014 at 8:55 AM, Piotr Dobrogost <p...@lists-2014.dobrogost.net> wrote: > Are there any plans to move from easy_install/eggs to pip/wheels in buildout?
Buildout doesn't really use easy_install. It uses setuptools. Originally, I tried to use easy_install directly (and do in some special cases where I shouldn't), but I needed a real API, which is why I moved down to setuptools. My hope is that some new API will emerge to replace setuptools. > I have an impression that buildout project has stagnated I prefer to say it's stable. :) A great sign is that other folks on the project have driven recent work. > which is > unfortunate taking into consideration how much python packaging has > changed recently. Buildout as it, is is entirely dependent on setuptools to add wheel support, at least until a new API emerges. AFAIK, pip doesn't provide an API for use by other tools. I'd be very happy to find out I'm wrong. I hope there's room for more than one command-line tool for working with packages in the ecosystem. It would be crazy for each tool to implement the low-level packaging machinery separately. We need a library to replace setuptools that pip uses and that other tools can use. Jim -- Jim Fulton http://www.linkedin.com/in/jimfulton _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig