[Distutils] A smaller step towards de-specializing setuptools/distutils

[Donald Stufft]

On October 29, 2015 at 5:09:45 PM, Marcus Smith (qwcode at gmail.com) wrote:
> >
> > > Nathaniel's grand plan requires dynamic run-time dependencies, so to be
> > > clear, this plan doesn't help the case that instigated most of the recent
> > > discussion, right?
> >
> > It should still solve that problem because it allows a project to
> > dynamically decide what dependencies they have (just like they can today)
> >
>  
> help me out here... how can we dynamically construct dependencies as we're
> building wheels today?

I’m not sure I understand the confusion… since a wheel is created by executing setup.py, you’d just have your build tool dynamically output different wheels based on the system you’re building on (or whatever axis is causing the dynamic dependencies). An example is like:

https://github.com/pypa/twine/blob/a0c87357d9d5d588082c9a59f6efc6f6bc3d3498/setup.py#L28-L31

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