[Distutils] build system abstraction PEP, take #2

Robert Collins robertc at robertcollins.net
Tue Nov 17 12:37:32 EST 2015


On 18 November 2015 at 05:28, Leonardo Rochael Almeida
<leorochael at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 17 November 2015 at 13:20, Daniel Holth <dholth at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> LGTM
>>
>> Q: Why is build_command a list?
>> Q: Why isn't the file name venezuelanbeavercheese.json instead of
>> pypa.json?
>
>
> Or why not just use a specific key in setup.cfg instead of a pypa.json file?
> ISTM that this PEP expects to find in pypa.json some keys that are supposed
> to be entered manually by humans, even though json is a format more easily
> written by machines than by humans...

I believe this is fully described in the rationale section - if not,
let me know which bit didn't make sense and I'll edit it.

-Rob


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