On 10 July 2017 at 14:58, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan@gmail.com> wrote:
That isn't the question though - the question is whether we want to actively support folks moving "compilation" like activities (minification, pyx->C conversion, etc) to the sdist generation stage by adding the optional "build_directory" option to "build_sdist" as well.
And that's the part where we decided the answer is "No", we only want to support the following configurations:
I'm not sure I follow this comment (or if I do, I don't agree with it :-)). I would expect projects that use Cython to have the step to build the C files from the Cython sources as part of the "build sdist" step, so that the sdist contains standard C sources, and end users can build from sdist with a C compiler installed, but without needing to install Cython. That's the standard approach these days, and I'd hope it will be supported under PEP 517. Paul PS Completely off-topic, but since when has gmail's web interface stopped allowing you to highlight a section of a mail and hit "Reply" to get just that section quoted? It seems to have changed very recently, or is it some setting change I might have accidentally made? It's intensely annoying, as it makes it much more time consuming to avoid top-posting :-( (and please, no suggestions that I use an alternative client, my usage pattern makes that impractical).