[Distutils] [Numpy-discussion] Proposal: stop supporting 'setup.py install'; start requiring 'pip install .' instead

[Paul Moore]

On 7 November 2015 at 22:46, Donald Stufft <donald at stufft.io> wrote:
> On November 7, 2015 at 5:45:24 PM, Paul Moore (p.f.moore at gmail.com) wrote:
>> On 7 November 2015 at 16:33, Ralf Gommers wrote:
>> > I had an example above of installing into different venvs. Full rebuilds for
>> > that each time are very expensive.
>>
>> Why doesn't wheel caching solve this problem? That's what it's *for*, surely?
>>
>
> I’m pretty sure we don’t cache wheels for local file paths.

So is this an argument that we should?
Paul