On 7 November 2015 at 07:57, Marcus Smith <qwc...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> So both the abstract build system PEP and donalds setup.py interface >> depend on having a bootstrap dependency list written into a file in >> the source tree. > > > your build PEP said stuff like this "Additional data *may* be included, but > the ``build_requires`` and ``metadata_version`` keys must be present" > > that leads me to think you need more than just this specification of a > single dependency.
Thats the next layer up - and if we adopt the egg-info-as-carrier format we don't need to issue a new PEP. I've yet to look closely. But any which way, it doesn't affect this PEP, and this PEP acts as a robust building block. -Rob -- Robert Collins <rbtcoll...@hp.com> Distinguished Technologist HP Converged Cloud _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
