[Distutils] Proposal: "Install and save"

[Daniel Holth]

Here is my attempt. The SConstruct (like a Makefile) builds the extension.
The .toml file gives the static metadata. No need to put the two in the
same file.

https://bitbucket.org/dholth/cryptacular/src/tip/SConstruct

https://bitbucket.org/dholth/cryptacular/src/tip/pyproject.toml

On Sat, Jul 23, 2016 at 10:11 AM Alex Grönholm <alex.gronholm at nextday.fi>
wrote:

> 23.07.2016, 17:04, Thomas Kluyver kirjoitti:
> > On Sat, Jul 23, 2016, at 02:32 PM, Alex Grönholm wrote:
> >> I'm -1 on this because requirements.txt is not really the standard way
> >> to list dependencies.
> >> In the Python world, setup.py is the equivalent of Node's package.json.
> >> But as it is
> >> Python code, it cannot so easily be programmatically modified.
> > Packaging based on declarative metadata:
> > http://flit.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
> > </blowing_own_trumpet>
> >
> > We have a bit of a divide. Specifying dependencies in setup.py (or
> > flit.ini, or upcoming pyproject.toml) is the standard for library and
> > tool packages that are intended to be published on PyPI and installed
> > with pip. requirements.txt is generally used for applications which will
> > be distributed or deployed by other means.
> >
> > As I understand it, in the Javascript world package.json is used in both
> > cases. Is that something Python should try to emulate? Is it hard to
> > achieve given the limitations of setup.py that you pointed out?
> This topic has been beaten to death. There is no way to cram the
> complexities of C extension compilation setup into purely declarative
> metadata. Distutils2 tried and failed. Just look at the setup.py files
> of some popular projects and imagine all that logic expressed in
> declarative metadata.
> > Thomas
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