[Distutils] Re: Making setup.py run external command to build

2021-03-26 Thread Julian Smith
On Fri, 26 Mar 2021 23:19:30 + "Thomas Kluyver" wrote: > On Fri, 26 Mar 2021, at 23:04, Julian Smith wrote: > > I can't tell from pip-18.1's diagnostics what exactly is going wrong. > > > > Given that my setup.py implements the normal distutils-style argv > > handling, i was expecting

[Distutils] Re: Making setup.py run external command to build

2021-03-26 Thread Thomas Kluyver
On Fri, 26 Mar 2021, at 23:04, Julian Smith wrote: > I can't tell from pip-18.1's diagnostics what exactly is going wrong. > > Given that my setup.py implements the normal distutils-style argv > handling, i was expecting things to work, but pip-18.1 appears to fail > before it even tries to run

[Distutils] Re: Making setup.py run external command to build

2021-03-26 Thread Julian Smith
On Thu, 25 Mar 2021 20:01:12 + "Thomas Kluyver" wrote: > On Thu, 25 Mar 2021, at 19:07, Julian Smith wrote: > > I was a little surprised to find out that one can't use pip to create > > an sdist, but i'm a bit late to this party and it looks like there's > > been plenty of discussion about