[Distutils] Re: Generalize sys.executable replacement from scripts to data_files (or more)

2019-02-13 Thread Nick Coghlan
On Fri, 8 Feb 2019 at 20:46, Min RK wrote: > This was opened as an issue (https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/4032) some > years ago, but it was more recently recommended to open a thread here and > that issue was closed due to inactivity, so here goes. > > pip currently rewrites sys.executable

[Distutils] Re: Building local versions with pip wheel

2019-02-13 Thread Nick Coghlan
On Wed, 13 Feb 2019 at 21:10, Bert JW Regeer wrote: > I will admit that I have yet to test if pip passes through the environment > un-modified, because in that case I may just end up using the environment > variable in setup.py directly. While PEP 517 doesn't specifically call this out, build

[Distutils] Re: Building local versions with pip wheel

2019-02-13 Thread Bert JW Regeer
> On Jan 4, 2019, at 12:36, Nick Coghlan wrote: > > On Fri, 4 Jan 2019 at 16:50, Nick Coghlan wrote: >> >> On Thu, 3 Jan 2019 at 11:13, Bert JW Regeer wrote: >>> Is there some way to influence the egg info for the build when using pip >>> wheel? Some thing like: >>> >>> pip wheel >>>