Just to set expectations: this whole process seems stalled to me; I'm going to context switch and focus on things that can move forward. Someone please ping me when its relevant to put effort in again :).
-Rob On 4 March 2016 at 03:11, Nick Coghlan <[email protected]> wrote: > On 3 March 2016 at 23:44, Donald Stufft <[email protected]> wrote: >> * We make it easier to use a non Python based build system. This is also a >> nice >> thing, however I don't think it should be a major decider in what API we >> provide. Any reasonable build system is going to have to be available via >> ``pip install`` in some fashion, so even if you write your build system in >> Go or Rust, you're going to have to create a Python package for it anyways, >> and if you're doing that, adding a tiny shim is pretty trivial, something >> like: >> >> import os.path >> import subprocess >> >> BIN = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), "mytool") >> >> def some_api_function(*args, **kwargs): >> flags = convert_args_kwargs_to_flags(*args, **kwargs) >> subprocess.run(BIN, *flags, check=True) >> >> I don't believe it to be a substantial burden to need to write a tiny >> wrapper >> if you're going to do something which I believe is going to be very >> unlikely. > > Ah, you're right, I hadn't accounted for the fact the same shim that > makes a non-Python tool installable as a build dependency could also > handle the adaptation from a Python API to a CLI or FFI based > approach, so putting the standardised interface in Python doesn't > raise any insurmountable barriers to cross-language interoperability - > they just move the additional complexity to the less common case. > > Given that, I'm going to go back to reserving judgement on *all* of > the points Robert mentioned, at least until you've had a chance to > finish writing up your own proposal - the determining factor I thought > I had found turned out not to be so determining after all :) > > Regards, > Nick. > > -- > Nick Coghlan | [email protected] | Brisbane, Australia -- Robert Collins <[email protected]> Distinguished Technologist HP Converged Cloud _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
