Re: disable building wheel for a package
Paul Moore <[email protected]>
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On Fri, 14 Sep 2018 at 16:03, Daniel Holth <[email protected]> wrote: > > It can be hard to predict where data went at runtime. I don't think it's "hard to predict". I *do* think it's badly documented/not standardised. See my previous note - pip installs into the install_data location that setuptools/distutils chooses. Ideally: a) Setuptools and/or distutils would document where that is clearly and in an easy to find location. b) There should be a standard defining "schemes" like this so that the choices aren't implementation-defined (by pip, setuptools and distutils in some weird combination). Of course "there should be..." means "someone who cares enough needs to invest time in..." :-( > Maybe we could record its path in .dist-info during the install. I think it may also not be clear how to put files into wheel's data directory from setup.py. Better would be to have a supported library that exposes the logic pip uses (or as I said above, the standard-defined logic) to determine such paths. See https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/5191 > If we added more categories it would allow the installer to override e.g. just the config directory rather than copying a Unix-like tree under data/ onto the install path. That's a reasonable but somewhat unrelated suggestion. I don't think it's needed for the OP's use case, but it may well be helpful for others. Paul -- Distutils-SIG mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mm3/mailman3/lists/distutils-sig.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/mm3/archives/list/[email protected]/message/XX3XL22GBYDTMGZCOMUU5253PBPJJVD2/