On Wed, Oct 21, 2015 at 10:03 AM, Ronny Pfannschmidt < opensou...@ronnypfannschmidt.de> wrote:
> why does that have to be in setuptools ?! > it doesn't have to be in setuptools at all -- I suppose I should have defined more clearly what I meant: setuptools_lite would be a package that does all things that setuptools does that we currently think it *should* do -- and nothing else. whether it's in setuptools as a special mode, forked from setuptools, or written from scratch is all implementation detail. perhaps it would be better with a different name -- maybe "buildtools"? But I thought for acceptance by the community, maybe saying: replace all your "import setuptools" with "import setuptool_lite" would be clear what the intent was -- i.e. not YET ANOTHER brand new build system... Oh and it would use the same API for the parts that it still supported. Given all that, if I were to do it, and I'm not sure I can... I would probably start with setuptools and rip stuff out rather than start from scratch. and both distutils and setuptools are very very sub-par > well, see the other discussion about the role / necessity of distutils... but yes, it's certainly possible to make a new build system completely independent of distutils. -CHB -- Christopher Barker, Ph.D. Oceanographer Emergency Response Division NOAA/NOS/OR&R (206) 526-6959 voice 7600 Sand Point Way NE (206) 526-6329 fax Seattle, WA 98115 (206) 526-6317 main reception chris.bar...@noaa.gov
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