[Distutils] command line versus python API for build system abstraction (was Re: build system abstraction PEP)

[Paul Moore]

On 10 November 2015 at 04:03, Marcus Smith <qwcode at gmail.com> wrote:
> although I wasn't arguing for it in that context, but rather just using it
> to be clear that a python api approach could still be used with build
> environment isolation

Which is a good point - it's easy enough to write adapters from one
convention to another (I'm inclined to think it's easier to adapt a
Python API to a CLI interface than the other way around, but I may be
wrong about that).

Paul