On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 5:21 PM, PJ Eby <p...@telecommunity.com> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 11:25 PM, Daniel Holth <dho...@gmail.com> wrote: >> An installer downloads an sdist. For each installed build plugin, >> .recognize(dir) is called. The first plugin to return True is used. > > Why not just have a standard bit of metadata in an sdist that tells > the installer what builder(s) needs to be installed? i.e., the > equivalent of setup_requires on steroids. > > (Granted, for backward compatibility, it's not hard to recognize > setuptools, distribute, or distutils-based sdists.)
* not an actual project * In practice you would have a tiny standard bit of metadata "setup_requires on steroids" and you would almost always follow it, but the ordered-list-of-builders design lets you override the sdist's decision. _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
