Project-specific pip configuration?

[pradyunsg (Pradyun Gedam)]

This sounds like something that’s actively under design, as part of the wheel-next initiative.

Build Isolation Passthrough - WheelNext

[Build Isolation Passthrough] Allowing a "specific package" to always passthrough the build isolation

With Packaging progressively moving towards pyproject.toml, one use-case I found fairly difficult to support is “how to ship a package that depends on the C/C++ (or even rust probably) ABI of a different package”. Well most of the time, you don’t have the choice and need to ship an sdist (instead of a wheel) because it really depends on what version (or even commit) the user base library is on. Now it’s not necessarily “easy” to tell the user “RTFM” (aka. read the documentation) especially whe…