Mr. grumpy pants, Now you're trolling us by describing flit.
Older versions of pip could be able to install it, just add a setup.py shim. Nearly trivial. A new simple build system could come with the agile build system support. It's just a matter of timing. On Sun, Oct 25, 2015 at 9:49 PM Donald Stufft <don...@stufft.io> wrote: > On October 25, 2015 at 7:17:12 PM, Nick Coghlan (ncogh...@gmail.com) > wrote: > > > > And now that I've got my "Mr grumpy pants" reaction to the earlier > > parts of the thread out of my system (sorry about that), I'd like to > > revisit Chris's idea of having a *simple* replacement for setuptools > > as a build system. > > > > I’m not *against* it, but it has some problems: > > * Older versions of pip and setuptools will not be able to install it at > all. This includes anyplace setuptools is used implicitly such as > ``setup.py install`` from another package that depends on it or > setup_requires or test_requires etc. > > * A lot of downstream folks will probably be mad at us for introducing a > second way of doing things (particularly since it won’t come with the agile > build system support that we have on the road map that will make this a lot > better for non setuptools build systems). > > ----------------- > Donald Stufft > PGP: 0x6E3CBCE93372DCFA // 7C6B 7C5D 5E2B 6356 A926 F04F 6E3C BCE9 3372 > DCFA > > > _______________________________________________ > Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig >
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