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

[Paul Moore]

On 11 November 2015 at 19:31, Nathaniel Smith <njs at pobox.com> wrote:
> This particular subthread is all hanging off of Paul's message [1]
> where he argues that we can't just print arbitrary text to
> stdout/stderr, we need, like, structured JSON messages on stdout that
> pip can parse while the build is running

As I already pointed out, I never said that.

Paul