Re: disable building wheel for a package

Paul Moore <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.python.distutils.devel
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On Fri, 14 Sep 2018 at 12:43, Jeroen Demeyer <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On 2018-09-14 12:55, Alex Grönholm wrote:
> > I'm curious: what data does it attempt to install and where? Have you
> > created a ticket for this somewhere?
>
> The OP mentioned absolute paths. However, it really sounds like a bad
> idea to hard-code an absolute installation path. Let's consider it a
> feature that wheel doesn't support that.

The OP hasn't said, but I assumed that it was expecting to install
something in a "standard" Unix location like /etc. As a Windows user,
I think that's a bad idea (and regardless of what OS I use, it's
clearly a non-portable idea) but I've no idea if wheels that install
stuff to locations like /etc have a sensible meaning on Unix. (They
obviously don't handle being installed in --user, or in a virtualenv,
so they aren't what I'd call "proper" Python packages, but maybe
there's still a reasonable use case here).

Regardless, I do consider it a feature that wheel doesn't support
installation to absolute paths.

Paul
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