On Wed, Oct 21, 2015 at 2:53 PM, Paul Moore <p.f.mo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> As I've already said, we have a plan for that, it's > just happening slowly (apparently too slowly for some people, but > rather than helping with it they seem happier to propose alternative > approaches that we've typically considered in the past and discarded, > I'm not exactly sure who (or which proposals) that was aimed at, but my idea, at least is not an alternative approach at all -- it's small idea for how to help get there, sooner than later. It seems the plan is to: finish hammering out the spec. Wait for _someone_ to make a new build system. Then wait how long? decades? for the entire user community to go to some new build system(s). Then we can finally deprecate the cruft of setuptools. Actually -- I like that plan -- and I'll probably be one of the early folks to jump on the bandwagon of the new build system. But in the meantime, a way to get my project to build without the setuptools cruft would be a nice option. BTW -- this is not just about letting pip work with more than one build system -- it's also about letting more than one package manage work with the existing (and other future) build systems. In conda, for instance, the convention is to call: python setup.py intstall. It turns out that now, we _should_ be calling: pip install ./ to actually get the right thing done. Really? A setuptools lite would do the right thing with "setup.py install" Hmm, now that I think about it, maybe I can just banish setuptools from my setup.py, stick with distutils, and then make sure to use pip to actually invoke anything -- so it will inject setuptools, but only use the bits we need.... I'll have to try that..... -CHB -- Christopher Barker, Ph.D. Oceanographer Emergency Response Division NOAA/NOS/OR&R (206) 526-6959 voice 7600 Sand Point Way NE (206) 526-6329 fax Seattle, WA 98115 (206) 526-6317 main reception chris.bar...@noaa.gov
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