On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 9:17 AM, Nick Coghlan <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 17 Mar 2015 23:01, "Daniel Holth" <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> So for me, metadata, while fine to have, is not the blocker for >> "generating wheels with some other build system". Having the other >> build system is the blocker. > > For me, it's not knowing what "done" looks like, even if a candidate > alternative build system was available. I know pip doesn't need the whole > setuptools feature set to generate wheels, but I don't know what subset it > actually uses, nor what changes when cross compiling C extensions in Linux. > > As far as I'm aware, *nobody* actually knows the answer to that right now, > so figuring it out will likely involve some code archaeology.
Yes, it's pretty obvious what "build a wheel with everything set to default" should look like, but I can't immediately envision "pass these standardized arguments if you need to compile a wheel for ARM while running on x86". :( _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
