On October 25, 2015 at 7:17:12 PM, Nick Coghlan (ncogh...@gmail.com) wrote: > > And now that I've got my "Mr grumpy pants" reaction to the earlier > parts of the thread out of my system (sorry about that), I'd like to > revisit Chris's idea of having a *simple* replacement for setuptools > as a build system. >
I’m not *against* it, but it has some problems: * Older versions of pip and setuptools will not be able to install it at all. This includes anyplace setuptools is used implicitly such as ``setup.py install`` from another package that depends on it or setup_requires or test_requires etc. * A lot of downstream folks will probably be mad at us for introducing a second way of doing things (particularly since it won’t come with the agile build system support that we have on the road map that will make this a lot better for non setuptools build systems). ----------------- Donald Stufft PGP: 0x6E3CBCE93372DCFA // 7C6B 7C5D 5E2B 6356 A926 F04F 6E3C BCE9 3372 DCFA _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
