On Mon, May 29, 2017 at 1:04 PM, Nathaniel Smith <n...@pobox.com> wrote: > Ugh, sorry, fat-fingered that. Actual reply below... > > On Mon, May 29, 2017 at 12:56 PM, Nathaniel Smith <n...@pobox.com> wrote: >> On Mon, May 29, 2017 at 12:50 PM, Donald Stufft <don...@stufft.io> wrote: >>> >>> To be honest, I’m not hardly going to feel particularly bad if one of the >>> most compilation heavy packages that exist takes a whole 10 seconds to >>> install from a VCS checkout. > > Rebuild latency is *really* important. People get really cranky at me > when I argue that we should get rid of "editable installs", which > create much greater problems for maintaining consistent environments, > and that's only saving like 1 second of latency.
I don't recall this being discussed. Is support for editable installs being considered for removal? Either way, what is the argument out of curiosity? --Chris _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
