On 6/21/12 11:55 PM, David Cournapeau wrote:
I think there is a misunderstanding of what bento is: bento is not a
compiler or anything like that. It is a set of libraries that work
together to configure, build and install a python project.
Concretely, in bento, there is
- a part that build a packager description (Distribution-like in
distutils-parlance) from a bento.info <http://bento.info> (a bite like
setup.cfg)
- a set of tools of commands around this package description.
- a set of "backends" to e.g. use waf to build C extension with full
and automatic dependency analysis (rebuild this if this other thing is
out of date), parallel builds and configuration. Bento scripts build
numpy more efficiently and reliable while being 50 % shorter than our
setup.py.
- a small library to build a distutils-compatible Distribution so
that you can write a 3 lines setup.py that takes all its info from
bento.info <http://bento.info> and allow for pip to work.
Now, you could produce a similar package description from the
setup.cfg to be fed to bento, but I don't really see the point since
AFAIK, bento.info <http://bento.info> is strictly more powerful as a
format than setup.cfg.
So that means that *today*, Bento can consume Distutils2 project and
compiles them, just by reading their setup.cfg, right ?
And the code you have to convert setup.cfg into bento.info is what I was
talking about.
It means that I can create a project without a setup.py file, and just
setup.cfg, and have it working with distutils2 *or* bento
That's *exactly* what I was talking about. the setup.cfg is the *common*
standard, and is planned to be published at PyPI statically.
Let people out there use their tool of their choice to install a project
defined by a setup.cfg
so 2 questions:
1/ does Bento install things following PEP 376 ?
2/ how does the setup.cfg hooks work wrt Bento ?
and last one proposal: how a PEP that defines a setup.cfg standard that
is Bento-friendly, but still distutils2-friendly would sound ?
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