Pep518 binaries

[ghost]

This feature is unused and could result in undesired
effects (eg. rebuilding numpy while installing build
dependencies). We drop the feature here.

Edit: I should also mention that recursive behavior (the existing implementation) is extremely bug-prone and can timeout in some cases without warning.

[ghost]

The documentation for --only-binary :all: says the following:

Do not use source packages. Can be supplied multiple times, and each time adds to the existing value. Accepts either :all: to disable all source packages, :none: to empty the set, or one or more package names with commas between them. Packages without binary distributions will fail to install when this option is used on them.

However, there is no wheel available for the simple package. That would seem to suggest that the documentation is not correct if pip is passed links.

@pfmoore Should I open a bug report about that?

[ghost]

There's the test failure we're looking for.

[ghost]

For reference the modification of the binary should be changing this:

[build-system]
requires=["simple==3.0", "setuptools", "wheel"]

To this:

[build-system]
requires=["simplewheel==2.0", "setuptools", "wheel"]

[pfmoore]

"This feature is unused". You don't say what feature, other than the vague title "Pep518 binaries".

But don't worry. You've seen my most recent comment on #4799, so let's wait till we get agreement on whether PEP 518 should change, or whether the recursive behaviour is required.

[ghost]

Yes, will discuss there.

[ghost]

Sorry, please discuss in #4799.