On 15 March 2016 at 18:34, Robert Collins <[email protected]> wrote: > Just to set expectations: this whole process seems stalled to me; I'm > going to context switch and focus on things that can move forward. > Someone please ping me when its relevant to put effort in again :).
I'm not sure what is needed to get this process moving again, but when it does, it would probably be worth reviewing https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/562 The issue there is that --editable and --target don't work well together in pip, if I understand the details it's because setuptools needs extra information to know how to do "setup.py develop" in the face of --target. The question for this thread is, does the build system interface need to know what *other* options get passed to pip as part of deciding what the correct "develop" command should be (or indeed any of the other commands)? Note that I don't have any vested interest in the specific issue in question, and "this is a corner case we shouldn't try to support going forward" is a perfectly acceptable answer as far as I'm concerned. But I thought it was worth raising in case it points to a limitation of the build system command discovery process. Paul _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
