On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 2:37 PM, Paul Moore <p.f.mo...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 21 March 2014 17:56, Daniel Holth <dho...@gmail.com> wrote: >> You do need to keep a mechanism to indicate & install build dependencies. > > Do we have that at the moment? Metadata 2.0 covers that with > build_requires. At the moment setup_requires covers it, but I don't > know if/how that works (AIUI, setup_requires is processed by > setuptools, so it's somewhat outside of the normal pip mechanisms). > > But yes, there needs to be some accessible data that tells pip > "install these packages before trying to run setup.py". Again, though, > that's only needed for "pip wheel" or for the > install-direct-from-source cases that may not even be expected to work > in the new metabuild system... > > Paul
We will always need the Gentoo-model "compiled-on-demand" style of installation. _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
