Re: pip and PEP 517 Backends

Phil Thompson <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.python.distutils.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 24/08/2019 10:27, Paul Moore wrote:
> On Sat, 24 Aug 2019 at 06:46, Phil Thompson 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> I have a PEP 517 compatible backend which works with pip to install 
>> from
>> an sdist (via an internal wheel). However there are a couple of
>> issues...
>> 
>> pip swallows all output from the backend. Is there anyway for the user
>> to see the output (builds can take several minutes)?
> 
> pip -v (or maybe -vv) should show this (plus a chunk of other stuff,
> unfortunately, but we don't have any finer control over what gets
> logged (and I'm not even sure what a good UI for something like that
> would look like).

It looks like the output is buffered and appears right at the end, so 
not good for progress messages during a lengthy build.

Phil
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