On Fri, Jun 16, 2017, at 10:01 PM, Nathaniel Smith wrote: > On Jun 16, 2017 12:13 PM, "Daniel Holth" <dho...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Build systems should be able to run under a different version of >> Python than the one that is running 'pip install'. Does PEP 517 have >> anything to say about that?> > No, and I don't think it should.
I agree. This would add considerable complexity to the spec, and then create a headache for frontend implementors - how would pip organise running a backend on another version of Python?
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