[Distutils] PEP for specifying build dependencies

[Brett Cannon]

On Fri, 13 May 2016 at 11:34 Chris Barker <chris.barker at noaa.gov> wrote:

> One other question:
>
> Is it just examples or is "build" being defined as "build a wheel"?
>

Just an example (clarified previously).

-Brett


>
> 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?
>

The minimal requirements to execute the build system. Providing some way to
specify more dependencies in some dynamic fashion and the like is for
another PEP.

-Brett


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> -CHB
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