[Distutils] Time for a setuptools_lite??

[Daniel Holth]

Mr. grumpy pants,

Now you're trolling us by describing flit.

Older versions of pip could be able to install it, just add a setup.py
shim. Nearly trivial.

A new simple build system could come with the agile build system support.
It's just a matter of timing.

On Sun, Oct 25, 2015 at 9:49 PM Donald Stufft <donald at stufft.io> wrote:

> 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).
>
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