[Distutils] Time for a setuptools_lite??

[Chris Barker]

On Wed, Oct 21, 2015 at 10:03 AM, Ronny Pfannschmidt <
opensource at ronnypfannschmidt.de> wrote:

> why does that have to be in setuptools ?!
>

it doesn't have to be in setuptools at all -- I suppose I should have
defined more clearly what I meant:

setuptools_lite would be a package that does all things that setuptools
does that we currently think it *should* do -- and nothing else.

whether it's in setuptools as a special mode, forked from setuptools, or
written from scratch is all implementation detail.

perhaps it would be better with a different name -- maybe "buildtools"?

But I thought for acceptance by the community, maybe saying:

replace all your "import setuptools" with "import setuptool_lite" would be
clear what the intent was -- i.e. not YET ANOTHER brand new build system...

Oh and it would use the same API for the parts that it still supported.
Given all that, if I were to do it, and I'm not sure I can... I would
probably start with setuptools and rip stuff out rather than start from
scratch.

and both distutils and setuptools are very very sub-par
>

well, see the other discussion about the role / necessity of distutils...
but yes, it's certainly possible to make a new build system completely
independent of distutils.

-CHB


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