On May 29, 2014, at 08:15 PM, Scott Kitterman wrote: >I'd rather remove the wheels we have and give up on ensurepip than start down >this slippery slope.
That means we give up on pyvenv, and given that virtualenv will eventually be a wrapper around pyvenv, that means we give up on virtual environments. Thus we eventually give up on tools like tox to test code in multiple versions of Python, and we give up on developers being able to work on code in isolated environments, or with packages that aren't in Debian, or have different versions than exist in Debian. Given how prevalent and important virtual environments are for Python development, it means we are essentially turning our back on all Python developers. >Wheels are an ugly solution for us to work around upstream doing things that >can most charitably be described as fixing problems we don't have. No more. Wheels are a solution to a problem that is *explicitly* Debian, given the policy and DFSG violations vendorizing entails. Upstream doesn't have the same concern. -Barry -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-python-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140529205313.1fe09...@anarchist.wooz.org
