On October 21, 2015 at 6:15:50 PM, Daniel Holth (dho...@gmail.com) wrote: > On Wed, Oct 21, 2015 at 5:52 PM David Cournapeau wrote: > > > On Wed, Oct 21, 2015 at 10:25 PM, Antoine Pitrou > > wrote: > > > >> On Wed, 21 Oct 2015 21:41:35 +0100 > >> Paul Moore wrote: > >> > On 21 October 2015 at 20:41, Chris Barker > >> wrote: > >> > > As I understand it, the current "API" that pip knows about is: > >> > > > >> > > "some subset of what setuptools provides" > >> > > > >> > > So my proposal is here is to provide a way for users to easily use > >> jsut that > >> > > subset. > >> > > >> > > >> https://pip.pypa.io/en/stable/reference/pip_install/#build-system-interface > >> > >> > > >> > All you need to do is write a setup.py, which can do *anything you > >> > like*, > >> > >> Reading this, the CLI options which have to be implemented are > >> completely tied to setuptools' own view of the world. > >> `--single-version-externally-managed`? `--install-headers`? Why should > >> a random build system care about that gunk? What should it do with it? > >> > > > > I agree it is not ideal, but it is not *that* hard. Regarding > > `--single-version-externally-managed`, if you don't care about setuptools > > interoperability, I believe it is safe to just ignore the flag (or more > > exactly do like what distutils does, that is installed directly in > > site-packages, and make `--single-version-externally-managed` a no-op). > > install_headers, I am not sure how many projects depend on that. The only > > projects I know that install headers (numpy, etc...) are not using the > > setuptools mechanism. > > > > If that's deemed useful, I could write a simple implementation that does > > not use distutils/setuptools but support that interface as an example (I > > have something similar enough times that I unfortunately know the ropes :) ) > > > > Also, it's no longer necessary to implement 'setup.py install' at all; you > can just implement bdist_wheel and pip will go from there. >
Well, it is if you want it to work with older pips or pip when wheel isn’t also installed. ----------------- Donald Stufft PGP: 0x6E3CBCE93372DCFA // 7C6B 7C5D 5E2B 6356 A926 F04F 6E3C BCE9 3372 DCFA _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
