[Distutils] Comments on PEP 426

[Nick Coghlan]

On 30 August 2013 22:26, Paul Moore <p.f.moore at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 30 August 2013 12:54, Oscar Benjamin <oscar.j.benjamin at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> setup.py that would satisfy those commands. It could be as easy as:
>>
>> if sys.argv[1] == 'bdist_wheel':
>>     sys.exit(subprocess.call(['bentomaker', 'build_wheel'])
>>
>> or whatever.
>
>
> OK, inspiration moment for me. It had never occurred to me that a project
> could do something like that, and now I see it explained, I understand the
> various discussions about standardising command line APIs much better.
> Thanks!

If you look at bento's setup.py it's even simpler:

    from bento.distutils.monkey_patch import setup
    setup()

>> I tried deleting the mentioned file but just got the same error
>> message again. Is that a bento/pip/setuptools bug? I notice that the
>> bento docs don't mention pip on the installation page:
>> http://cournape.github.io/Bento/html/install.html
>>
>
> I've never yet got bento working for me. I have assumed that some aspect of
> Windows, Python 3.x, pip or oddities of my setup are not supported yet, and
> have simply left it as "not for prime time yet" (based on the 0.1.1 version
> number) in my mind. So it's always remained as the "obvious example of an
> alternative build system" while still being theoretical.

Could just be a Windows incompatibility - *nix will let another
process open the same file quite happily.

> I'd love to see something concrete though, as these debates tend to get
> remarkably abstract at times :-)

d2to1 is actually my "go to" example of an alternate build system that
people are already using. A setup.py style shim for a setup.cfg based
project. Although d2to1 may just embed the metadata directly in
setup.py - I haven't actually looked into it in detail.

Cheers,
Nick.

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