Re: [Distutils] build a wheel with waf instead of setuptools

2014-07-30 Thread Chris Barker
On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 7:21 AM, Daniel Holth dho...@gmail.com wrote: This kind of thing will require us to implement a flag that tells pip setup.py cannot install; go through wheel which is somewhere in the plans.. couldn't you write a file called setup.py, with the core API (i.e

Re: [Distutils] build a wheel with waf instead of setuptools

2014-07-30 Thread Daniel Holth
Pip compatibility is very useful, so I was thinking about doing something like that. Along with using setup-requires-dist to download an appropriately forked waf: https://bitbucket.org/dholth/setup-requires . Then a little boilerplate code later you have a non-distutils package build without