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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Donald Stufft
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