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 -- Distutils-SIG mailing list -- distutils-sig@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to distutils-sig-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/distutils-sig.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/distutils-sig@python.org/message/4OGHTCTCPM7WDFVPPFOUUSU7B6V3YSKR/