On 10 February 2016 at 13:43, Paul Moore <p.f.mo...@gmail.com> wrote: >> In this case, the build system abstraction PEP should propose some >> additional text for >> https://packaging.python.org/en/latest/specifications/#source-distribution-format >> defining how to publish source archives containing a pypa.json file >> and the setup.py shim. At that point, it will effectively become the >> spec for sdist 1.0, since that's never previously been officially >> defined. >> >> The key difference from setuptools is that the setup.py shim will be a >> standard one that flit (and other source archive creation tools) can >> inject when building the sdist, rather than needing to be a custom >> file stored in each project's source repository. > > Neat! That sounds like a sensible approach, and if the build system > abstraction PEP adds this, then that addresses my remaining > objections.
We should probably also check with the flit people that the proposed approach works for them. (Are there any other alternative build systems apart from flit that exist at present?) Paul _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
