On 12 October 2015 at 05:37, Robert Collins <[email protected]> wrote:
> And a bugfix :) - I didn't link to the docs for the build system > interface we have today - > https://pip.pypa.io/en/latest/reference/pip_install/#build-system-interface > I'm happy to see that the command line interface pip requires from setup.py is now documented. But the first thing it describes is the egg_info command, and the description of what that involves is basically 'whatever setuptools does'. Egg info is not any kind of standard, AFAIK - unlike dist info. One of my main goals in writing flit is to build wheels without involving setuptools at all, so I'm probably never going to implement that. I also don't want to have a setup.py in the VCS at all, because it's an invitation for people to run setup.py whatever, and then file bug reports that it doesn't do exactly what setuptools/distutils would do. This is what I like about Nathaniel's proposal. By looking for a new file, it clearly indicates that this is a new style Python source tree, without potential confusion over what setup.py does, and it lets us specify a simple build system interface based on standardised pieces like wheels rather than messing around with the details of setuptools. Thomas
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