I thought distlib was supposed to be that API... Even though pip doesn't use it.
Though that would mean a new major version of buildout that worked on wheels exclusively instead of eggs. Pip itself has an internal API in the `pip.commands` package. From a casual glance it seems usable from other programs. I.e. you could import `pip.commands.install:Install`, instantiate and call `.run()`. On 1 December 2014 at 12:53, Jim Fulton <j...@zope.com> wrote: > 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 >
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