On Sep 4, 2013, at 9:27 AM, Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 4 September 2013 23:25, Paul Moore <p.f.mo...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On 4 September 2013 14:18, Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> If such projects publish wheel files (modulo us getting the Linux file >>> naming problem sorted), then the only people the build issues are >>> likely to hit are those that force builds from source (like >>> zc.buildout and Linux distributions). >> >> Personally, I don't expect to see published wheels for some time yet. >> So building from source (even if only once to make a locally published >> wheel) will remain an important issue, and if we need >> setuptools-compatibility to build wheels, that will mean projects >> getting told "your project's setup.py fails when I try to do pip >> wheel". >> >> But as I say, this is all based on "if such projects exist"... > > I was under the impression pip *already* forced the use of setuptools > (to ensure "--record" is available), so why would "pip wheel" provoke > any more bug reports than "pip install"? Because people do weird things in their setup.py that isn't compatible with Wheel. Often times minor tweaks makes it work though. ----------------- Donald Stufft PGP: 0x6E3CBCE93372DCFA // 7C6B 7C5D 5E2B 6356 A926 F04F 6E3C BCE9 3372 DCFA
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