As many know there has been an effort to get a generalized interface that a 
build system can implement so that we can break the hard dependency on 
setuptools that Python packaging currently has. After a lot of deliberation and 
threads back and forth (as well as video meetings!) I think that the version of 
the PEP that is currently on the PR in 
https://github.com/pypa/interoperability-peps/pull/54 looks like it’s generally 
the right thing to move forward with. I made a few little comments but overall 
I think it’s there and we’re ready to move forward on trying to get a reference 
implementation done that can validate the decisions made in that PEP (and then, 
hopefully finalize the PEP and merge those implementations).

So many thanks to everyone involved in hammering this out thus far :) I’m 
nervous but excited about the possibility of making setuptools just another 
build system.

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Donald Stufft
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