Am 21.10.2015 um 18:46 schrieb Chris Barker: > On Wed, Oct 21, 2015 at 9:34 AM, Thomas Güttler <guettl...@thomas-guettler.de > <mailto:guettl...@thomas-guettler.de>> wrote: > > I ask myself: Why a standard? I see that a standard is very important if > there will be > several implementations (for example TCP/IP, protocols like HTTP, SMTP, > IMAP, ...) > > But here a single implementation for creating and installing packages > would be enough. > > Is a standard really needed? > > > Yes -- because of exactly what you say above -- we really can't have a SINGLE > build system that will well support everything -- > the common use-caes, sure (distutils already does that), but when it comes to > bulding complex packages like numpy, sciPy, etc, it's really inadequate.
Yes, you are right: "we really can't have a SINGLE build system that will well support everything". But maybe a single build systems which has a well documented plugin API can solve all needs? Regards, Thomas Güttler -- http://www.thomas-guettler.de/ _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
