[Distutils] Are there any plans to move to pip/wheels in buildout?

[Reinout van Rees]

On 01-12-14 14:55, Piotr Dobrogost wrote:
> Are there any plans to move from easy_install/eggs to pip/wheels in buildout?

I asked that too, once. I think Jim Fulton said that there was a 
mismatch between pip's and buildout's goal. If I remember correctly the 
problem is this:

- Pip installs everything into (normally) a virtualenv. So your have ONE 
project with ONE single set of packages.

- Buildout allows different combinations of packages per part. So your 
sphinx documentation buildout doesn't have to have your webserver 
packages in its sys.path.

Jim, is that a fair summary? (Of course, this only looks at the python 
package part of what buildout does, not at the whole recipe mechanism).


Something I don't understand here is that there *is* a single version 
list. And so it feels like it doesn't really matter that much if you 
just lump all the packages together (like pip does).

I could imagine a buildout that just uses pip every time it has to 
install a python package. Feeding pip the version list, of course. And 
then puts the buildout.cfg mechanism on top of it.


The alternative is, like Marius said in his reply, to use virtualenv + 
pip + makefiles or so. And you'd have to add something that replaces the 
recipes. For that, I really like buildout :-)


Reinout

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