<div dir="ltr">Mr. grumpy pants,<div><br></div><div>Now you're trolling us by describing flit.</div><div><br></div><div>Older versions of pip could be able to install it, just add a setup.py shim. Nearly trivial.</div><div><br></div><div>A new simple build system could come with the agile build system support. It's just a matter of timing.</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Sun, Oct 25, 2015 at 9:49 PM Donald Stufft <<a href="mailto:donald@stufft.io">donald@stufft.io</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On October 25, 2015 at 7:17:12 PM, Nick Coghlan (<a href="mailto:ncoghlan@gmail.com" target="_blank">ncoghlan@gmail.com</a>) wrote:<br>
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> And now that I've got my "Mr grumpy pants" reaction to the earlier<br>
> parts of the thread out of my system (sorry about that), I'd like to<br>
> revisit Chris's idea of having a *simple* replacement for setuptools<br>
> as a build system.<br>
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I’m not *against* it, but it has some problems:<br>
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* Older versions of pip and setuptools will not be able to install it at all. This includes anyplace setuptools is used implicitly such as ``setup.py install`` from another package that depends on it or setup_requires or test_requires etc.<br>
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* A lot of downstream folks will probably be mad at us for introducing a second way of doing things (particularly since it won’t come with the agile build system support that we have on the road map that will make this a lot better for non setuptools build systems).<br>
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