[Pythonmac-SIG] Package for building DMG installers from pip requirements

[Matthew Brett]

Oops,

On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 1:50 PM, Matthew Brett <matthew.brett at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 10:46 AM, Charlie Clark
> <charlie.clark at clark-consulting.eu> wrote:
>> Am .09.2014, 16:42 Uhr, schrieb Matthew Brett <matthew.brett at gmail.com>:
>>
>>> So just to be clear, the difference here is between the instlal you got
>>> for:
>>> pip install your-package
>>
>>
>>> where `your-package` was either an sdist built with ``python setup.py
>>> sdist`` or a wheel built with ``python setup.py bdist_wheel``?
>>
>>
>>> Is your package online somewhere to have a look at the setup.py?
>>
>>
>> https://bitbucket.org/openpyxl/openpyxl/src
>>
>>> My best guess would be you had some custom code for building the sdist
>>> that is not being run for other distutils build commands.  If that's
>>> the case, then you could certainly reasonably blame the fact that
>>> distutils is complicated, but it would not be a general problem with
>>> wheels.
>>
>>
>> No, as I said the manifest wasn't being respected with wheels so we stopped
>> using them. No idea whether this applies to any other projects or why it is.
>> As I said before, Python's packaging is still a work in progress.
>
> The MANIFEST only specifies the files to put into the sdist, so this is
> the documented behavior (though maybe what you'd expect).

Sorry - obviously - "maybe _not_ what you'd expect" - it certainly
wasn't what I expected.

Having said that, these are - er - features of distutils, and wheels
just give the same as ``python setup.py install`` - as do other binary
installer options, which seems reasonable to me.

Cheers,

Matthew