On 20 August 2016 at 02:46, Chris Barker <chris.bar...@noaa.gov> wrote: > Maybe the alternative to setuptools_lite is to set up one of these other > tools to work well (easily) for building python packages. If it can do > everything that setuptools can do (that we want setuptools to do), and just > as easily, maybe that's the next step forward. > > but if that isn't happening soon, then a setuptools_lite would be a useful > step forward.
Enabling folks to more easily use existing build systems like Scons, Waf, Meson, CMake, et al is one of the main goals of pyproject.toml. Daniel Holth has a working Scons proof of concept at https://pypi.python.org/pypi/enscons that actually works independently of pyproject.toml support in pip by using a boilerplate setup.py to do the bootstrapping and invocation of the build system. It's why we don't particularly want to replace distutils/setuptools with any build system in particular - the world actually has a surfeit of cross-platform build systems, and many of them are written in Python and are hence quite friendly to being bootstrapped for use in building Python extension modules. Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
