What does setup.py install --old-and-unmanageable actually do?

[FFY00 (Filipe Laíns)]

@J-M0

Well, I’m already trying to shove a Django project into an RPM, so I figured since I’m probably already deep into “don’t to that” territory what’s one more thing.

As a distro packager, putting a django app in a RPM seems fine to me.

@J-M0

What would you recommend then? A custom setup.py command? This is a package that is going to be managed by yum so I wanted to leverage as many standard tools as possible.

There is no replacement yet, unless you consider pip a valid solution. See PEP 517 workflow for distributions for a detailed explanation. Essentially, the replacement would be to build a wheel (with GitHub - pypa/build: A simple, correct Python build frontend), and then install it, but currently there isn’t any useful wheel installer other than pip.