> On May 10, 2016, at 9:43 PM, Ian Cordasco <graffatcolmin...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 8:24 PM, Nathaniel Smith <n...@pobox.com> wrote: >> 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 :-) > > I think "build-system" is more descriptive and the more descriptive we > can be, the better. (Think of choosing descriptive method and > attribute names as well as variables.)
I’m in favor of “build”, mostly because I think [package.build-system] requires = [“setuptools”, “wheel”] is uglier than [package.build] requires = [“setuptools, “wheel”] and I think for 99% of people the distinction is going to be lost anyways. That being said, I think either one is OK. ----------------- Donald Stufft PGP: 0x6E3CBCE93372DCFA // 7C6B 7C5D 5E2B 6356 A926 F04F 6E3C BCE9 3372 DCFA
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