On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 12:18 PM, Lennart Regebro <rege...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 4:49 PM, Daniel Holth <dho...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Then you are also in favor of removing sdist support from the "pip >> install" command, in the same way that rpm doesn't automatically >> compile srpm. > > I was not aware that pip could create sdists.
In my view the fact that pip creates an installation as an artifact of installing from a source package is equivalent to creating a wheel, given that wheel is a format defined as a zip file containing one installation of a distribution. Both operations equally ruin pip's reputation as being an installer instead of a build tool. Instead all installation should have an intermediate, static, documented binary representation created by the build tool that is later moved into place by the install tool. I would be pleased if "pip install" lost the ability to natively install sdists without that intermediate step. _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
