> Because even if we go with the entry-point-style Python > hooks, the build frontends like pip will still want to spawn a child > to do the actual calls -- this is important for isolating pip from the > build backend and the build backend from pip, it's important because > the build backend needs to execute in a different environment than pip > itself, etc.
[...] > Concretely, the way I imagine this would work is that pip would set up > the build environment, and then it would run > > build-environment/bin/python path/to/pip-worker-script.py <args> > fwiw, such a worker is what I was describing in an earlier thread with Robert last work https://mail.python.org/pipermail/distutils-sig/2015-October/027443.html although I wasn't arguing for it in that context, but rather just using it to be clear that a python api approach could still be used with build environment isolation
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