Hello, You want to raise the issue directly at the pip issue tracker, https://github.com/pypa/pip. This mailing list is reserved mostly for general packaging related topics.
Thanks, On Mon, Nov 30, 2020 at 6:47 PM Mikhail Golubev via Distutils-SIG < distutils-sig@python.org> wrote: > Hi there! > > I'm a member of the PyCharm team, and we faced a rather critical issue > with the release of pip 2020.3 ( > https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/PY-45712). It turned out that we > actually still used the "--build-dir" option in our internal scripts for > installing packages through pip, and we completely missed the fact that it > was deprecated. To make the matter worse, a few releases back we > implemented automatic upgrading of packaging tools in all virtual > environments created in the IDE, so now it's impossible to install anything > in a new project unless pip is explicitly downgraded first. > > Judging by how pip now operates regarding building of packages, this > option can be safely dropped in our wrappers, but we still need some time > to prepare and test patches for a few previous releases and upcoming > 2020.3. Is it possible to give us some time to soften the blow for the > users? > > The second question is about the behavior of this option. It appears that > we initially started using it because in the past packages were not built > in a temporary directory by default. Could you please point me to the exact > version of pip where it changed? -- I couldn't find it in a changelog. It > would help us decide whether we need to keep some compatibility layer for > interpreters with an old version of pip installed. > > Thanks a lot! > -- > Distutils-SIG mailing list -- distutils-sig@python.org > To unsubscribe send an email to distutils-sig-le...@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/distutils-sig.python.org/ > Message archived at > https://mail.python.org/archives/list/distutils-sig@python.org/message/6Z5DQGRDGOU4OCO3JSS4FVYWV5JBUPVP/ >
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