[Distutils] Fwd: Re: PEP 517 again

[xoviat]

Actually I submitted a compliant PR 3 months ago when the PEP was first
marked as accepted. Then it was marked as draft and I thought that I would
just wait for distutils-sig to handle it. And then I came over here to find
what was going on.

On Aug 24, 2017 5:33 PM, "xoviat" <xoviat at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm handling the setuptools backend. I will make sure that it complies
> with the clean directory.
>
> On Aug 24, 2017 5:30 PM, "Paul Moore" <p.f.moore at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On 24 August 2017 at 20:00, Thomas Kluyver <thomas at kluyver.me.uk> wrote:
>> > So for the time being, I'd prefer to say that the build_wheel() hook
>> should
>> > not create or modify files in the source directory. Backends may keep
>> their
>> > own caches elsewhere to speed up repeated builds, but any more
>> provisions
>> > for developer use cases should be left for a future PEP. And developers
>> can
>> > invoke enscons/flit/... directly in the meantime.
>>
>> That means a PEP 517 compatible interface to setuptools is more
>> complex, as it would *have* to specify a temporary build directory.
>> And I'm not sure whether there are any *other* files it dumps in the
>> source directory (egg info comes to mind, and PKG-INFO) and if so
>> whether it's easy to get setuptools to place them elsewhere. That's
>> fine, as far as I'm concerned, but it should be made explicit, IMO.
>> I'm not yet sure who (if anyone) is proposing to write a PEP 517
>> wrapper for setuptools (or if we'll need to special-case setuptools in
>> pip for "legacy" support) but we should make it as easy as possible
>> for anyone who does to get the details right, as it's likely to be a
>> very widely used backend.
>>
>> It would be a lot easier to handle the edge cases here if there were
>> someone writing a setuptools wrapper. Any takers? (I'm not sure I can
>> make the time to do so, and I *am* sure that if I did, I don't have
>> the time to support and maintain it going forward...)
>>
>> Paul
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