Re: disable building wheel for a package

No one wants wheel to be able to install things outside of the virtualenv.
What people have repeatedly asked for is the ability to install things
somewhere besides $VIRTUAL_ENV/lib/python#.#/site-packages/, places like
$VIRTUAL_ENV/etc/ for example.
Should all the config files, documentation, data, man pages, licenses,
images, go into $VIRTUAL_ENV/lib/python#.#/site-packages/? Or can we do a
better job letting people put files in $VIRTUAL_ENV/xyz?

On Fri, Sep 14, 2018 at 9:51 AM sashk <[email protected]> wrote:

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>
> 14.09.2018, 08:37, "Paul Moore" <[email protected]>:
>
> 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.
>
> No, I'm not installing anything into standard unix locations. My package
> is for internal use, so we had a luxury to write it specifically for use
> with virtual environment.
>
> We need to install Jupyter kernels (and other files) into
> $VIRTUAL_ENV/etc/jupyter and $VIRTUAL_ENV/share/jupyter paths. This was
> done with the help of data_files, and works unless we build wheel, because
> of use of absolute paths.
>
> Do I understand correctly, that when using relative paths in the
> data_files and installing package into virtual environment,  installation
> prefix is sys.prefix and it is the same as $VIRTUAL_ENV?
>
> Thanks.
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