[Distutils] Conditionless setup.py

[Thomas Güttler]

The setup.py of numpy looks big and complicated: https://github.com/numpy/numpy/blob/master/setup.py

I guess there are even more complicated setup.py files.

Do you think it will be possible in the future to make setup.py conditionless (no "if", no "else", no function calls)?

I mean that the setuptools/distutils/whatever libraries will handle all needed conditions?

This would mean setup.py would be a pure data structure which could be encoded in json or yaml.

What do you think?

Regards,
   Thomas Güttler


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