a distracting but maybe interesting tangent from <...
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witty-crayon-22786
08/16/2021, 5:48 PMa distracting but maybe interesting tangent from #12548: i wonder whether a lockfile + directory full of loose wheels is sufficient to act as a replacement for the
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08/16/2021, 5:51 PMif it were a PEP-665 lockfile (additionally encoding the graph structure), Pants could subset it directly in memory
witty-crayon-22786
08/16/2021, 5:51 PMhaving said that, i suppose that’s roughly what you produce with a directory full of wheels and the graph outputted by PEX_TOOLS.
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proud-dentist-22844
08/16/2021, 5:57 PMI wonder if that would be faster than building the pex?
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witty-crayon-22786
08/16/2021, 6:01 PMit would skip one step of installing and then extracting the wheels, yea. but i doubt that that is anywhere near as expensive as the resolve or actual wheel-building