Thanks for sharing, I completely agree. I mentioned this in the README on pythonloc a week or two ago but forgot to add it to this blog post. I just updated it today with that concern.
I think that is one of the main use-cases of __pypackages__: to (easily) install some things from the internet and make sure your environment is reproducible. If you aren’t certain which packages are being used, you can’t be certain the environment is reproducible.
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Hi Chad, thanks for this post, the TLDR really help me understand what’s going on.A question, Poetry is already PEP 517 compliant(https://poetry.eustace.io/docs/pyproject/#poetry-and-pep-517), and you said “This has not yet landed in pip.”So what’s…
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Hey, any clue why, as of today (pip 19.0 was released), I still cannot install a directory with a pyproject.toml and NOT a setup.py? Thanks!
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