[Distutils] PEP for specifying build dependencies

[Brett Cannon]

On Thu, 12 May 2016 at 20:52 Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 13 May 2016 at 02:33, Brett Cannon <brett at python.org> wrote:
> > Both Donald and Nathaniel say to drop it, and since I put it in just to
> be
> > overly cautious I'm fine with dropping it. So unless Nick says
> > "semantics-version or death!", I agree w/ my co-authors and would update
> the
> > PEP to say:
> >
> > 1. no semantics-version
> > 2. [build-system] instead of [package.build-system]
> >
>
> I think both of those changes are improvements - having to change the
> filename is a reasonable disincentive against making breaking changes,
> and with just the two sections initially being defined ([build-system]
> and [tool.*]) it makes sense to have them both at the top level.
>

Seems everyone is in agreement then. I'll update the PEP and send out a new
draft later today.
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