[Distutils] PEP: Build system abstraction for pip/conda etc

[David Cournapeau]

On Wed, Feb 10, 2016 at 1:52 PM, Paul Moore <p.f.moore at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 10 February 2016 at 13:43, Paul Moore <p.f.moore at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> In this case, the build system abstraction PEP should propose some
> >> additional text for
> >>
> https://packaging.python.org/en/latest/specifications/#source-distribution-format
> >> defining how to publish source archives containing a pypa.json file
> >> and the setup.py shim. At that point, it will effectively become the
> >> spec for sdist 1.0, since that's never previously been officially
> >> defined.
> >>
> >> The key difference from setuptools is that the setup.py shim will be a
> >> standard one that flit (and other source archive creation tools) can
> >> inject when building the sdist, rather than needing to be a custom
> >> file stored in each project's source repository.
> >
> > Neat! That sounds like a sensible approach, and if the build system
> > abstraction PEP adds this, then that addresses my remaining
> > objections.
>
> We should probably also check with the flit people that the proposed
> approach works for them. (Are there any other alternative build
> systems apart from flit that exist at present?)
>

I am not working on it ATM, but bento was fairly complete and could
interoperate w/ pip (a few years ago at least):
https://cournape.github.io/Bento/


>
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