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

[Ralf Gommers]

On Wed, Feb 10, 2016 at 3:30 PM, David Cournapeau <cournape at gmail.com>
wrote:

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> On Wed, Feb 10, 2016 at 1:52 PM, Paul Moore <p.f.moore at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> 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?)
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> 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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I plan to test with Bento (I'm still using it almost daily to work on
Scipy) when an implementation is proposed for pip. The interface in the PEP
is straightforward though, I don't see any fundamental reason why it
wouldn't work for Bento if it works for flit.

Ralf
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