On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 7:43 AM, Ralf Gommers <ralf.gomm...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On Wed, Feb 10, 2016 at 3:30 PM, David Cournapeau <courn...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> >> >> >> On Wed, Feb 10, 2016 at 1:52 PM, Paul Moore <p.f.mo...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > >>> 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?) >>> >> >> I am not working on it ATM, but bento was fairly complete and could >> interoperate w/ pip (a few years ago at least): >> https://cournape.github.io/Bento/ >> > > I plan to test with Bento (I'm still using it almost daily to work on > Scipy) when an implementation is proposed for pip. The interface in the PEP > is straightforward though, I don't see any fundamental reason why it > wouldn't work for Bento if it works for flit. > It should indeed work, I was just pointing at an alternative build system ;) I am a bit worried about making a PEP for interfacing before we have a few decent alternative implementations. Having the official interface is not necessary to actually interoperate, even if it is ugly. David > Ralf > > > _______________________________________________ > Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig > >
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