2 Sep
2016
2 Sep
'16
3:30 a.m.
Similarly, it wouldn't astonish me if we eventually see an emergent practice of people writing pyproject.toml.in files for complex projects, in order to move some particular forms of complexity away from build time and towards development time - this would be a similar practice to folks using autoconf to generate a project's C Makefile.
This actually formulates much better than I could have done the reasons why I dislike PEP518: it's only going to lead to reinventing the wheel (AKA autoconf, which is a pretty big wheel to reinvent). Antony