Thomas Kluyver

Thanks! We do already have a note in the docs saying that: > Flit calls pip to do the installation. You can set any of pip’s options [using its environment...

What problem are you hitting with `flit publish`? I don't think it tries to download any packages when you publish.

Aha, I understand. This is quite a different question from how you control what happens with `flit install`. :slightly_smiling_face: It comes back to the distinction between [abstract and concrete requirements](https://caremad.io/posts/2013/07/setup-vs-requirement/)....

What's the use case this is meant to address? If you want to make installation faster by avoiding compressing and decompressing the data, it may be better to return to...

Have a look at the [bootstrapping page in the docs](https://flit.readthedocs.io/en/latest/bootstrap.html). My assumption is that most 'normal' users will use pre-built wheels - at least of some of these initial packages...

I think ultimately the fix for this will be to have a TOML parser in the Python standard library. As things stand, we've standardised the TOML format for packaging, but...

Can I ask you (or anyone) to investigate in a bit more detail what GCP dataflow is actually trying to do? I've never used it.

Thanks! Quite a bit has changed in pip & packaging tools in the last couple of years - pip uses calendar versioning, so 19.x means released in 2019. I see...

For most purposes - if you're just trying to get stuff installed and working - using `--no-binary :all:` is overkill. This prevents pip from downloading and installing a wheel, which...

I believe that the packaging ecosystems that are strict about building everything from source also tend to strongly object to bundling, so I don't think a solution that relies on...