On Mon, 5 Oct 2015 08:44:04 -0400 Donald Stufft <[email protected]> wrote: > > I don't think that it makes sense for pip to go directly from a VCS[1] to a > Wheel in the grand scheme of things. Right now we kind of do it, but that's > because we just treat them like an unpacked sdist [2], long term though I > don't > think that is the correct way to do things. We (I?) want to minimize the > different installation "paths" that can be taken and the main variable then > when you do a ``pip install`` is how far long that path we already are. My > ideal path looks something like this: > > VCS -> Source Wheel [3] -> Wheel -> Installed > \-> Inplace Installation [4]
A valid use case may be to do an in-place installation from a sdist (although you may question the sanity of doing development from a source tree which isn't VCS-backed :-)). In any case, sdists being apt for human consumption is an important feature IMHO. Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
