[Distutils] PEP 517 again

[xoviat]

Looks like Nick is on the losing side here, but we shall see.

On Aug 25, 2017 8:28 PM, "Greg Ewing" <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:

> Oh, BDFL, will you settle whether we should raise an exception or return
> Notimplemented?
>
> On Aug 25, 2017 8:28 PM, "Greg Ewing" <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
>
> xoviat wrote:
>
>> I mean how is opening a file different than attempting to build an sdist?
>>
>
> 1. Opening a file is a very common operation.
>
> 2. Most file opens are expected to succeed, and if one doesn't,
> the appropriate place to deal with that is almost never at the
> site of the open call, but somewhere further up.
>
> In contrast, there's probably only about one place in any
> given frontend where the backend's build_sdist method gets
> invoked, and it's unlikely the ability to let a not-implemented
> exception bubble up from that point would be of great use.
>
>
> --
> Greg
>
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