Return none makes sense, but I don't think the outcome of that or the "configurable src path" decisions will affect the success of the proposal.
On Sun, Aug 27, 2017, 05:59 Paul Moore <[email protected]> wrote: > On 26 August 2017 at 23:13, Nathaniel Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > > This whole discussion is about handling a specific case: suppose you > > have a frontend like pip that when given a source directory and asked > > to build a wheel, wants to implement that as: > > - build sdist > > - unpack sdist > > - build wheel from unpacked sdist > > While I can't speak for Donald or the other pip devs, I'd like to > point out that in > https://mail.python.org/pipermail/distutils-sig/2017-August/031288.html > I confirmed that I'm basically persuaded now that pip should just > "trust the backend" and use build_wheel directly. So this whole debate > isn't relevant for pip. We'll need to wait for other > currently-hypothetical frontends like tox or twine which might use the > build_wheel hook, before we'll have any practical experience to > confirm if there's an issue with "return None" as the way for backends > to signal that they weren't able to build a wheel. > > Paul > _______________________________________________ > Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig >
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