Nathaniel: Pip requires egg_info to discover dependencies of source distributions so that it can build wheels all at once after downloading the requirements. I need to move pip off of egg_info as soon as possible and dist_info is required to do that.
2017-09-03 21:00 GMT-05:00 Nathaniel Smith <n...@pobox.com>: > On Sun, Sep 3, 2017 at 11:14 AM, xoviat <xov...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Just an update for everyone here: > > > > 1. We're currently waiting on the implementation of the 'dist_info" > command > > in the wheel project. > > 2. Once that is done we can switch pip over to reading dist-info rather > than > > egg_info. > > 3. Then we can move the backend over to setuptools. Because Jacob has a > much > > more efficient release system than pip, I anticipate having a release of > > setuptools first and then we can switch pip over to requiring a newer > > setuptools via PEP 518. > > I don't think pip actually has any use for the PEP 517 > prepare_wheel_metadata hook right now though? Historically 'setup.py > egg-info' was needed to kluge around unwanted behavior in 'setup.py > install', but with a PEP 517 backend that's irrelevant because > 'setup.py install' is never used. And in the future when pip has a > real resolver, then prepare_wheel_metadata should allow some > optimizations. But right now, prepare_wheel_metadata is completely > useless AFAIK. > > So why is 'setup.py dist_info' a blocker for things? > > -n > > -- > Nathaniel J. Smith -- https://vorpus.org >
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