[Distutils] PEP for specifying build dependencies

[Chris Barker]

One other question:

Is it just examples or is "build" being defined as "build a wheel"?

i.e. there are times one might want to build a package without building a
wheel -- just it install it yourself, or to put it in another package
format -- conda, rpm, what have you.

In conda's case, building a wheel, and then installing it would work fine,
but I'm not sure we want to lock that down as the only way to build a
package.

Granted, if all it means is that someone will download an unnecessary
dependency, big deal.

I'm also a bit confused about whether we're trying to specify the
dependencies required simply to run the build tool itself, or the
dependencies required to actually do the build -- or the latter being saved
for another day?

-CHB


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