On 10 February 2016 at 10:23, M.-A. Lemburg <m...@egenix.com> wrote: > IMO, that's easy to achieve, though, with the existing de-facto > standard interface we already have: the setup.py command line API. > We'd just need to publish the minimal set of commands and options, > installer will want to see implemented in order to initiate > the builds.
No-one who's investing time in writing PEPs is willing to thrash out the details of how to use the setup.py interface in a formal proposal that sticks to the sort of "minimum required" spec that alternative tools would be willing to support. And there's no indication that tool developers are willing to implement a setup.py compatible interface format as you suggest. And finally, you'd need a way to declare that pip installs tool X before trying to run setup.py. So "easy to achieve" still needs someone to take the time to deal with these sorts of issue. It's the usual process of the people willing to put in the effort get to choose the direction (which is also why I just provide feedback, and don't tend to offer my own proposals, because I'm not able to commit that sort of time). Paul _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
