[Distutils] setup_requires: the obvious option(?)

[Antony Lee]

>
> Similarly, it wouldn't astonish me if we eventually see an emergent
> practice of people writing pyproject.toml.in files for complex
> projects, in order to move some particular forms of complexity away
> from build time and towards development time - this would be a similar
> practice to folks using autoconf to generate a project's C Makefile.


This actually formulates much better than I could have done the reasons why
I dislike PEP518: it's only going to lead to reinventing the wheel (AKA
autoconf, which is a pretty big wheel to reinvent).
Antony
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