[Distutils] PEP 517: Build frontend responsibilities

[Nick Coghlan]

On 19 August 2017 at 05:28, Thomas Kluyver <thomas at kluyver.me.uk> wrote:
> We've probably all wished that the discussion could be brought to a swift
> conclusion. But there are real questions to work out, and people have many
> other things to pay attention to. I'm frustrated by how long it's taking as
> well, but there's no magic button anyone can press to make it go quickly.

Technically, commercial redistributors do have a magic button we could
press called "ongoing funding for sustaining engineering in the
upstream Python ecosystem" (since that kind of funding can also cover
needs-driven UX improvements), but alas, whether or not we ever
actually press that is conditional on potential customers pressing the
"customer demand" button hard enough and often enough to light up the
"viable business opportunity" sign :P

I'm actually genuine curious to see how those commercial dynamics
start changing as the end date for community support of the Python 2.x
series gets closer :)

Cheers,
Nick.

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