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

[Donald Stufft]

On November 7, 2015 at 6:16:34 PM, Donald Stufft (donald at stufft.io) wrote:
> > I want to reduce the “paths” that an installation can go down. 

I decided I’d make a little visual aid to help explain what I mean here (omitting development/editable installs because they are weird and will always be weird)!

Here’s essentially the way that installs can happen right now https://caremad.io/s/Ol1TuV6R9K/. Each of these types of installations act subtly different in ways that are not very obvious to most people.

Here’s what I want it to be: https://caremad.io/s/uJYeVzBlQG/. In this way no matter what a user is installing from (Wheel, Source Dist, Directory) the outcome will be the same and there won’t be subtly different behaviors based on what is being provided.

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Donald Stufft
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