[Distutils] PEP for specifying build dependencies

[Daniel Holth]

Thanks for the suggested bikeshed topic. Clever!

I like build also. "package build requires". I see that build is what you
used in the example [rejected] file formats. To me further segmentation
between build systems and the actual build that the build system effects is
something you might do to avoid the cost of installing a dependency that
might not actually be needed during that phase. IMO installation of an
occasional extra package is a fair price to pay if it reduces the number of
concepts in the system.

On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 10:26 AM Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:

> On Thu, 12 May 2016 00:20:32 +1000
> Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > When I say "build system configuration" in the context of
> > distutils/setuptools, I mean things like:
> >
> > * MANIFEST.in
> > * non-dependency related setup() arguments (packages, package_dir,
> > py_modules, ext_modules, namespace_packages, entry_points,
> > include_package_data, zip_safe, etc)
> > * the Extension class and its parameters:
> >
> https://docs.python.org/2/distutils/setupscript.html#describing-extension-modules
> >
> > Those are the settings that actually tell the build system what to
> > build and (in some cases) how to build it.
>
> That's confusing :-) You should really call it "build configuration".
>
> Regards
>
> Antoine.
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