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

[David Cournapeau]

On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 7:43 AM, Ralf Gommers <ralf.gommers at gmail.com>
wrote:

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> 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.
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It should indeed work, I was just pointing at an alternative build system ;)

I am a bit worried about making a PEP for interfacing before we have a few
decent alternative implementations. Having the official interface is not
necessary to actually interoperate, even if it is ugly.

David


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