Mr. grumpy pants, Now you're trolling us by describing flit. Older versions of pip could be able to install it, just add a setup.py shim. Nearly trivial. A new simple build system could come with the agile build system support. It's just a matter of timing. On Sun, Oct 25, 2015 at 9:49 PM Donald Stufft <donald@stufft.io> wrote:
On October 25, 2015 at 7:17:12 PM, Nick Coghlan (ncoghlan@gmail.com) wrote:
And now that I've got my "Mr grumpy pants" reaction to the earlier parts of the thread out of my system (sorry about that), I'd like to revisit Chris's idea of having a *simple* replacement for setuptools as a build system.
I’m not *against* it, but it has some problems:
* 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.
* 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).
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