On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 10:25 AM, Paul Moore <p.f.mo...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 21 March 2014 13:46, Daniel Holth <dho...@gmail.com> wrote: >> It mostly has to implement egg_info and install to be pip compatible. > > At a *very* brief scan, pip uses just the following setup.py > invocations (this definitely needs to be properly audited before > relying on it): > > For installation from sdist > * setup.py egg_info [--egg-base XXX] > * setup.py install --record XXX [--single-version-externally-managed] > [--root XXX] [--compile|--no-compile] [--install-headers XXX] > > For editable installs > * setup.py develop --no-deps > > Not sure, used in RequirementSet > * setup.py clean > > For pip wheel > * setup.py bdist_wheel -d XXX > > Note that installation from wheel requires *no* setup.py interface. > Nearly all of this is for installation from sdist (which long-term is > expected to be deprecated - install via wheels is the intended "way of > the future", and PR #1572 is the first step on the way to that). While > theoretically you can build wheels any way you like, I expect "pip > wheel XXX" to be the canonical approach (it's how PR#1572 works) and > at the moment that means implementing setup.py bdist_wheel. > > So, at a bare minimum, you could get away with just supporting > setup.py bdist_wheel (and not supporting editable installs or installs > direct from source). It might need PR #1572 to make this palatable, of > course. > > Also, there's the fact (which I glossed over) that pip currently > doesn't run setup.py directly, but does some nasty hackery to inject > setuptools. Before working on standard build interfaces, we probably > need to refactor that out somehow. Maybe a simple flag (that could be > set in setup.cfg) that says "use setup.py without monkeypatching" > would be enough...
No worries... if you are re-implementing setup.py, then setuptools is monkey-patching code that you won't be executing. _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
