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| author | Stéphane Bidoul <stephane.bidoul@gmail.com> | 2023-03-27 18:09:03 +0200 |
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| committer | Stéphane Bidoul <stephane.bidoul@gmail.com> | 2023-03-31 09:47:09 +0200 |
| commit | 849dcbd6a8b777e2b2b7842fdd12d6831384fc29 (patch) | |
| tree | 06c8df7de350e7579d86138977e3aff1b9f15863 /docs | |
| parent | e5deb4dd8d7989ced863d1995369be7f374cdce4 (diff) | |
| download | pip-849dcbd6a8b777e2b2b7842fdd12d6831384fc29.tar.gz | |
Remove more traces of setup.py install
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| -rw-r--r-- | docs/html/reference/build-system/setup-py.md | 9 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/docs/html/reference/build-system/setup-py.md b/docs/html/reference/build-system/setup-py.md index 53917b8a4..0103a3a6a 100644 --- a/docs/html/reference/build-system/setup-py.md +++ b/docs/html/reference/build-system/setup-py.md @@ -24,8 +24,6 @@ The overall process for building a package is: - Generate the package's metadata. - Generate a wheel for the package. - - If this fails and we're trying to install the package, attempt a direct - installation. The wheel can then be used to perform an installation, if necessary. @@ -58,13 +56,6 @@ If this wheel generation fails, pip runs `setup.py clean` to clean up any build artifacts that may have been generated. After that, pip will attempt a direct installation. -### Direct Installation - -When all else fails, pip will invoke `setup.py install` to install a package -using setuptools' mechanisms to perform the installation. This is currently the -last-resort fallback for projects that cannot be built into wheels, and may not -be supported in the future. - ### Editable Installation For installing packages in "editable" mode |