On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 11:25 PM, Daniel Holth <[email protected]> wrote: > An installer downloads an sdist. For each installed build plugin, > .recognize(dir) is called. The first plugin to return True is used.
Why not just have a standard bit of metadata in an sdist that tells the installer what builder(s) needs to be installed? i.e., the equivalent of setup_requires on steroids. (Granted, for backward compatibility, it's not hard to recognize setuptools, distribute, or distutils-based sdists.) _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
