On October 29, 2015 at 6:32:21 PM, Marcus Smith (qwc...@gmail.com) wrote: > > > > > > since a wheel is created by executing setup.py, you’d just have your build > > tool dynamically output different wheels based on the system you’re > > building on (or whatever axis is causing the dynamic dependencies). > > > understood, but I guess I was under the [mistaken?] impression, that > dynamic support is needed literally in the wheel build step. > > for example, going with your idea above, that we need to support 3rd party > tools being dynamic in the "setup.py bdist_wheel" step, not simply in the > "setup.py dist-info" step. > > and as it is, pip does't understand this possibility.
So in the new path, we wouldn’t call ``setup.py dist-info`` for “normal” installations, we’d compile a wheel and inspect that for dependencies. ----------------- 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
