> On Jun 15, 2017, at 4:29 PM, Nathaniel Smith <n...@pobox.com> wrote: > > - However, I am more dubious about hacking stuff like prepare_build_files > into the standard to support this specific interaction between two specific > tools, especially since it's not at all obvious to me that this is the best > way to support even those two tools. Our two concrete examples are: >
I don’t have a strong feeling here TBH. I would prefer if we just always sent things through build_sdist (and we said that projects should be able to at a minimum no-op copy/paste files from an already existing unpacked sdist, how they determine that is up to them). However I can see the argument that there could be an optional hook that something like pip *could* call (but probably shouldn’t be mandatory to call it?). I don’t know, the prepare_build_files hook is weird, and I would not personally feel bad if we got rid of it. — Donald Stufft
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