[Distutils] PEP 517 again

[Chris Barker]

On Mon, Sep 4, 2017 at 6:00 AM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:

> >> Do the Linux distros use pip to build their packages?
> >
> > Not that I am aware of.
>
> Fedora's build macros for Python projects currently rely on running
> setup.py directly, but we've been considering switching to pip instead
> since 2013 or so. PEP 517 is likely to provide the impetus to switch
> from "maybe we should do that" to "we need to do that, at least if
> setup.py is missing, and potentially always, so we get more consistent
> installation metadata"
>

which is exactly why I tried to do it in conda. In a post PEP 517 world,
that may be a good way to go. I'm looking forward to it.

-CHB



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