[Distutils] PEP 517: Build frontend responsibilities

[xoviat]

At this point, I can only offer implementations as I have been attempting
to do (some of which are outdated because the PEP has changed), but I
cannot make anyone pay attention to or accept my pull requests and it seems
I cannot accelerate the discussion here.

2017-08-18 14:08 GMT-05:00 xoviat <xoviat at gmail.com>:

> I have attempted to implement prototype machinery here
> <https://github.com/pypa/pip/pull/4589> and here
> <https://github.com/pypa/setuptools/pull/1039>, but it's been widely
> ignored IHMO because as Thomas said, the spec keeps changing.
>
> 2017-08-18 12:37 GMT-05:00 Thomas Kluyver <thomas at kluyver.me.uk>:
>
>> There's prototype machinery to call the hooks here, though it's outdated
>> because the spec keeps changing:
>> https://github.com/takluyver/pep517
>>
>> There's a prototype backend in a branch of flit, but it's even more
>> outdated:
>> https://github.com/takluyver/flit/tree/toml-config
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Aug 18, 2017, at 06:27 PM, Daniel Holth wrote:
>>
>> Apart from the issues, can we get some prototype implementations?
>>
>> On Fri, Aug 18, 2017, 13:24 xoviat <xoviat at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Thomas:
>>
>>
>> What are the specific issues that need to be worked out?
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>>
>> xoviat
>>
>> 2017-08-18 3:09 GMT-05:00 Thomas Kluyver <thomas at kluyver.me.uk>:
>>
>> On Fri, Aug 18, 2017, at 07:09 AM, Nick Coghlan wrote:
>> > The other aspect I'm not clear on is whether or not both PEP authors
>> > are otherwise happy for the current version to be *considered* for
>> > acceptance
>>
>> Nathaniel has mentioned to me a list of issues he sees that we still
>> need to work through. So I think we're going to be working on this for a
>> while yet.
>>
>> Thomas
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