[Distutils] status check on PEP 517

[Daniel Holth]

It looks like we've run out of things to say about PEP 517, except, how
soon can we get it into pip? These function signatures will serve us well,
significantly lowering the barrier to entry for new pip-compatible build
systems.

On Thu, Jul 20, 2017 at 3:36 PM Brett Cannon <brett at python.org> wrote:

> On Thu, 20 Jul 2017 at 03:56 Nathaniel Smith <njs at pobox.com> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Jul 20, 2017 at 3:22 AM, Paul Moore <p.f.moore at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > On 20 July 2017 at 10:46, Nathaniel Smith <njs at pobox.com> wrote:
>> >> To make this concrete: I'm *pretty* sure (?) that at this point all
>> >> the basic elements in my "simplified" rewrite are things that we now
>> >> have consensus are needed in some form, so maybe we can use that as a
>> >> kind of "minimal core" reference point:
>> >>
>> >>
>> https://github.com/njsmith/peps/commits/517-refactor-streamline/pep-0517.txt
>> >
>> > I don't have time this week to look at this, sorry, but a couple of
>> points:
>> >
>> > 1) This links to a commit in your repo, not to the actual document.
>>
>> Ugh, sorry! Pasted the wrong link. This is the correct one:
>>
>>
>> https://github.com/njsmith/peps/blob/517-refactor-streamline/pep-0517.txt
>>
>> > Also, I'd *really* prefer a rendered version if I'm going to review
>> > this.
>>
>> Annoyingly, the PEPs repo uses a .txt extension for .rst files, thus
>> cleverly preventing github from doing anything useful by default...
>>
>
> We will happily accept help in converting plaintext PEPs into reST ones so
> we can universally change the file extensions to .rst (see
> https://github.com/python/peps/issues/1) :)
>
> -Brett
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