On Tue, 23 Mar 2021, at 11:13, Julian Smith wrote:
> So as far as i can tell, there are two levels of abstraction at which
> on can implement customised Python packaging (the setuptools.setup()'s
> callbacks or the setup.py command line), but neither one seems to be
> documented or standardised.

That's right. PEP 517 (https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0517/ ) is our 
effort to have a standardised, documented interface to replace running 
setup.py. setup.py is now run by setuptools as part of a PEP 517 backend.

Thomas
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