[Distutils] Remove distutils, was: red, green, refactor ...

[Ionel Cristian Mărieș]

On Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 1:50 AM, Vinay Sajip <vinay_sajip at yahoo.co.uk>
wrote:

>
> I've thought about the migration path with distil, which uses a
> declarative metadata format (superset of PEP-426 as it was a while ago)
> where the actual metadata is extracted from setup.py files in releases
> already on PyPI. This works well for simple distributions which don't do
> anything fancy in setup.py, such as extending build commands to create
> files on the fly which are then installed etc. In my early testing, distil
> (which uses no distutils or setuptools code) could install and package
> distributions which were pure-Python as well as package, build and install
> ones with C extensions and even Fortran extensions. I haven't done much
> work on it for a while due to other commitments, but when I had the time to
> work on it, I noted precious little interest from distutils-sig (yes, I
> know we're all volunteers, but one person can only do so much).


​What does distil do to achieve this? A setuptools polyfill? Just parsing
​setup.py and inspecting file layout?

Is there any code for this or you're just talking about an idea? I couldn't
find any distil project in https://bitbucket.org/vinay.sajip/ ...



Thanks,
-- Ionel Cristian Mărieș, http://blog.ionelmc.ro
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