On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 5:39 PM, Brett Cannon <br...@python.org> wrote: > Donald, Nathaniel, and I have finished our proposed PEP for specifying a > projects' build dependencies. The PEP is being kept at > https://github.com/brettcannon/build-deps-pep, so if you find spelling > mistakes and grammatical errors please feel free to send a PR to fix them.
Thanks Brett! > The only open issue in the PEP at the moment is the bikeshedding topic of > what to name the sub-section containing the requirements: `[package.build]` > or `[package.build-system]` (we couldn't reach consensus among the three of > us on this). To maybe help nudge initial bikeshedding on this in useful directions, the main arguments (IIUC) were: In favor of "build-system": setup.py is used for more than just the strict "build" (source tree/sdist -> wheel) phase. For example, setup.py is also used to do VCS checkout -> sdist. And it seems likely that the new build system abstraction thing will grow similar capabilities at some point. So calling the section just "build" might be misleading. In favor of "build": it's just shorter and reads better. Maybe there's a third option that's even better -- [package.automation] ? Maybe it doesn't matter that much :-) -n -- Nathaniel J. Smith -- https://vorpus.org _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
