On 2021-03-25 20:01:12 + (+), Thomas Kluyver wrote:
> I'm surprised it fails on the wheels - how exactly are you using
> pip?
>
> If you're relying on PEP 517, then pip 18.1 is too old to install
> it from an sdist - PEP 517 support was added in 19.0
>
On 2021-03-25 19:07:50 + (+), Julian Smith wrote:
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> I've come across a problem where an old pip-18.1 fails to install from
> an sdist or wheel, with error:
>
> ERROR: You must give at least one requirement to install (see "pip help
> install")
>
> pip-20.2.1 and pip-21.0.1
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 this in the past.
There is now the (quite new) 'build' tool which can
On Tue, 23 Mar 2021 12:34:47 +
"Thomas Kluyver" wrote:
> On Tue, 23 Mar 2021, at 11:13, Julian Smith wrote:
> > So as far as i can tell, there are two levels of abstraction at which
> > on can implement customised Python packaging (the setuptools.setup()'s
> > callbacks or the setup.py
