[Distutils] Time for a setuptools_lite??

[Donald Stufft]

On October 25, 2015 at 7:17:12 PM, Nick Coghlan (ncoghlan at gmail.com) wrote:
>  
> And now that I've got my "Mr grumpy pants" reaction to the earlier
> parts of the thread out of my system (sorry about that), I'd like to
> revisit Chris's idea of having a *simple* replacement for setuptools
> as a build system.
>  

I’m not *against* it, but it has some problems:

* Older versions of pip and setuptools will not be able to install it at all. This includes anyplace setuptools is used implicitly such as ``setup.py install`` from another package that depends on it or setup_requires or test_requires etc.

* A lot of downstream folks will probably be mad at us for introducing a second way of doing things (particularly since it won’t come with the agile build system support that we have on the road map that will make this a lot better for non setuptools build systems).

-----------------
Donald Stufft
PGP: 0x6E3CBCE93372DCFA // 7C6B 7C5D 5E2B 6356 A926 F04F 6E3C BCE9 3372 DCFA