On Mon, Jul 17, 2017 at 11:30 PM, Thomas Kluyver <tho...@kluyver.me.uk> wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 17, 2017, at 01:07 PM, Paul Moore wrote: > > If we have a consensus here that "build a sdist and build a wheel from > > it" is an acceptable/viable main route for pip to generate wheels > > (with "just ask the backend" as fallback) then I'm OK with not > > bothering with an "ask the backend to build a wheel out of tree" > > option. My recollection of the history was that there was some > > resistance in the past to pip going down the "build via sdist" route, > > but if that's now considered OK in this forum, then I'm fine with > > assuming that either I was mistaken or things have changed. > > I think I was one of the people arguing against going via an sdist. The > important point for me is that an sdist is not a requirement for > installing from source - it's ok by me if it tries building an sdist > first and then falls back to building a wheel directly. > Same here, I had a preference for not going via sdist but am OK with the current status of the PEP. Cheers, Ralf
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