BTW scipy list is rejecting all my emails (vs eg moderating), so I'm going to drop the cc in all future replies.
-Rob On 3 November 2015 at 16:05, Robert Collins <robe...@robertcollins.net> wrote: > On 3 November 2015 at 16:02, Nathaniel Smith <n...@pobox.com> wrote: >> On Nov 2, 2015 6:51 PM, "Robert Collins" <robe...@robertcollins.net> wrote: > ... >>> > Ugh. If 'pip (install/wheel) .' is supposed to become the standard way >>> > to build things, then it should probably build in-place by default. >>> > Working in a temp dir makes perfect sense for 'pip install >>> > <requirement>' or 'pip install <url>', but if the user supplies an >>> > actual named on-disk directory then presumably the user is expecting >>> > this directory to be used, and to be able to take advantage of >>> > incremental rebuilds etc., no? >>> >>> Thats what 'pip install -e .' does. 'setup.py develop' -> 'pip install -e >>> .' >> >> I'm not talking about in place installs, I'm talking about e.g. building a >> wheel and then tweaking one file and rebuilding -- traditionally build >> systems go to some effort to keep track of intermediate artifacts and reuse >> them across builds when possible, but if you always copy the source tree >> into a temporary directory before building then there's not much the build >> system can do. > > Ah yes. So I don't think pip should do what it does. It a violation of > the abstractions we all want to see within it. However its not me you > need to convince ;). > > -Rob > > -- > Robert Collins <rbtcoll...@hp.com> > Distinguished Technologist > HP Converged Cloud -- Robert Collins <rbtcoll...@hp.com> Distinguished Technologist HP Converged Cloud _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
