[Distutils] Re: Distlib vs Packaging (Was: disable building wheel for a package)

2018-09-22 Thread Nick Coghlan
On Fri, 21 Sep 2018 at 23:10, Donald Stufft wrote: > So I should probably be explicit that this was basically an idea I had, that > Kenneth rolled with and originally tried to implement as a PR to pip but when > pip’s code base was too, gnarly to get it in directly, he made pipenv to wrap >

[Distutils] Re: Distlib vs Packaging (Was: disable building wheel for a package)

2018-09-22 Thread Dan Ryan
Pipenv also uses pip as mentioned several times in the thread, and (reiterating here) the entire point of the conversation is about how both can work together on changes. That is the thrust of the whole discussion. We are actively using pip via its internals and pips developers (who _actively