On Wed, 21 Oct 2015 21:41:35 +0100 Paul Moore <p.f.mo...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 21 October 2015 at 20:41, Chris Barker <chris.bar...@noaa.gov> wrote: > > As I understand it, the current "API" that pip knows about is: > > > > "some subset of what setuptools provides" > > > > So my proposal is here is to provide a way for users to easily use jsut that > > subset. > > https://pip.pypa.io/en/stable/reference/pip_install/#build-system-interface > > All you need to do is write a setup.py, which can do *anything you > like*,
Reading this, the CLI options which have to be implemented are completely tied to setuptools' own view of the world. `--single-version-externally-managed`? `--install-headers`? Why should a random build system care about that gunk? What should it do with it? I think Nathaniel's PEP, for all its shortcomings, looked much saner than that piece of ad-hoc specification (a.k.a. "here's the random set of things we're currently doing, let's make a spec out of it"). This is like the Microsoft OOXML of Python packages distribution. Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
