On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 6:04 PM, Marcus Smith <qwc...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I'm of course hoping that someone uses the feature to do a >> setup.py-command-line-interface-compatible distutils replacement >> (rather than a distutils extension) like what Bento does with its >> pip-compatible setup.py replacement. > > > ah, I see. interesting. > I admit my initial reaction to "quack like a setup.py" alternative build > systems is that it sounds invasive and sneaky, and I want it to be explicit > and overt, like it will be in metadata 2.X. > but on the other hand, I hear you about wanting to see alternatives have > some way to get off the ground now.
There's a bit of a chicken-egg problem obviously. For the moment I am more interested in just giving people a usable setup_requires. _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
