On 24 August 2017 at 16:15, xoviat <xov...@gmail.com> wrote: >> 2. I'm not completely clear on how pip's implementation will work - I > think the intention is to always build a sdist and build a wheel from > that, unless the backend reports it can't build a sdist, in which case > we ask it to build a wheel directly. > > This was the exact process that I proposed, but was told that: > > >> I agree that the way you want to do packaging is fundamentally >> incompatible > with build systems that do not resemble distutils. Perhaps since this is > distutils sig some here are too used to distutils as the only model of how > packaging might work. Beware that, when fighting monsters, you yourself do > not become a monster... for when you gaze long into the abyss. The abyss > gazes also into you.
That wasn't me that said that. > There seems to be some miscommunication about the actual process being > proposed. Possibly - or there's some confusion about what you're proposing. I certainly have found your suggestions difficult to follow, and I don't recall you having said "we do sdist->wheel then fall back to requesting wheels directly". I also don't see how that's incompatible with systems that don't resemble distutils, so I suspect that whoever you quoted (which I think might have been Daniel) understood whatever you did say to mean something different. I know Daniel has been involved in the discussion and I don't think he's raised any such objection about the PEP (and he developed enscons, so he has direct experience of writing backends). Paul _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
