Whatever it was, removing it seems to have had no effect on the tests. I will remove it unless someone has an objection.
2017-09-02 18:26 GMT-05:00 xoviat <xov...@gmail.com>: > Donald, > > > This was your work in https://github.com/pypa/pip/pull/2169. > Unfortunately the comments were quite sparse. > > 2017-09-02 18:25 GMT-05:00 xoviat <xov...@gmail.com>: > >> One more issue that has come up is that "--no-user-cfg" seems to be >> passed to the egg_info invocation if the "isolated" parameter is enabled. I >> don't understand what this does, but it is again not defined in the PEP 517 >> interface. Should we always pass this parameter or should we never pass it? >> >> 2017-09-02 14:42 GMT-05:00 Donald Stufft <don...@stufft.io>: >> >>> >>> On Sep 1, 2017, at 2:30 PM, Chris Barker <chris.bar...@noaa.gov> wrote: >>> >>> On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 9:23 PM Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> since it >>>> doesn't reliably distinguish between "this cached wheel was downloaded >>>> from a repository" and "this wheel was generated locally with a >>>> particular version of Python". >>> >>> >>> It shouldn't have to. sigh. >>> >>>> >>> PEP 517 deliberately doesn't let >>>> frontends do that as part of the initial build process (instead, if >>>> they want to adjust the tags, they need to do it as a post-processing >>>> step). >>>> >>>> Since PEP 517 breaks the current workaround for the caching scheme >>>> being inaccurate, the most suitable response is to instead fix pip's >>>> caching scheme to use a two tier local cache: >>> >>> >>> I'm still confused -- if setuptools ( invoked by pip) is producing >>> incorrectly named wheels -- surely that's a bug-fix/workaround that should >>> go into setuptools? >>> >>> If the build is being run by pip, then doesn't setuptools have all the >>> info about the system that pip has? >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> Someone building a wheel for distribution is likely intimately aware of >>> that project, and can take care to ensure that the wheel is built in such a >>> way that it is giving people the most optimal behavior. Pip is auto >>> building wheels without human intervention, and as such there is nobody >>> there to make sure that we’re not accidentally creating a too-broad wheel, >>> so we want to ensure that we have some mechanism in place for not re-using >>> the wheel across boundaries that might cause issues. >>> >>> >>> >>> we also have plenty of PyPI users that >>>> explicitly *opt out* of using publisher-provided pre-built binaries. >>>> While Linux distributions are the most common example (see [1] for >>>> Fedora's policy, for example), we're not the only ones that have that >>>> kind of rule in place. >>> >>> >>> But this is an argument for why pypi should host sdists, and the build >>> tools should build sdists, but not why pip should auto-build them. >>> >>>> >>> Condo-forge, for example, almost always builds from source -- sometimes >>> an sdist >>> from pypi, sometimes a source distribution from github or wherever the >>> package is hosted. And sometimes from a git tag ( last resort). >>> >>> >>> >>> Pip supports more systems than Conda does, and we do that by relying on >>> auto building support. Pip supports systems that don’t have a wheel >>> compatibility tag defined for them, and for which we’re unlikely to ever >>> have any wheels published for (much less wide spread). It’s pretty easy to >>> cover Windows/macOS/Some Linux systems, but when you start talking about >>> FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, etc then the long tail gets >>> extremely long. >>> >>> Pip works in all these situations, and it does so by relying on building >>> from source. >>> >>> >>> >>> Do the Linux distros use pip to build their packages? >>> >>> >>> >>> Not that I am aware of. >>> >>> >>> I tried to do that with conda-packages, and failed due to pip's caching >>> behavior-- it probably would have worked fine in production, but when I >>> was developing the build script, I couldn't reliably get pip to ignore >>> cached wheels from previous experimental builds. >>> >>> >>> >>> Adding —no-cache-dir disables all of pip’s caching. >>> >>> — >>> Donald Stufft >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org >>> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig >>> >>> >> >
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