Re: disable building wheel for a package

I’m wondering though, why? The wheel format already offers a data directory, couldn’t it be used for most of the things mentioned?


> On 14/9/2018, at 22:25, Daniel Holth <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 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] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>  
>  
> 14.09.2018, 08:37, "Paul Moore" <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>:
>> On Fri, 14 Sep 2018 at 12:43, Jeroen Demeyer <[email protected] <mailto:[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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