> On Dec 1, 2014, at 8:44 PM, Nick Coghlan wrote:
>
> On 2 December 2014 at 05:54, Vinay Sajip wrote:
>> AFAIK pip does use distlib (it is vendored by pip), but only for some
>> ancillary functions such as pre-release version checks.
>
> The current direction things appear to be going is:
>
>
On 2 December 2014 at 05:54, Vinay Sajip wrote:
> AFAIK pip does use distlib (it is vendored by pip), but only for some
> ancillary functions such as pre-release version checks.
The current direction things appear to be going is:
* use distlib to get a "batteries included" approach to packaging
external code).
Regards,
Vinay Sajip From: Leonardo Rochael Almeida
To: distutils sig
Sent: Monday, 1 December 2014, 16:23
Subject: Re: [Distutils] Standard packaging API? (was Re: Are there any plans
to move to pip/wheels in buildout?)
I thought distlib was supposed to be that API...
I thought distlib was supposed to be that API... Even though pip doesn't
use it.
Though that would mean a new major version of buildout that worked on
wheels exclusively instead of eggs.
Pip itself has an internal API in the `pip.commands` package. From a casual
glance it seems usable from other
On Mon, Dec 1, 2014 at 8:55 AM, Piotr Dobrogost
wrote:
> Are there any plans to move from easy_install/eggs to pip/wheels in buildout?
Buildout doesn't really use easy_install. It uses
setuptools. Originally, I tried to use easy_install directly (and do
in some special cases where I shouldn't), b
