On Fri, Jul 28, 2017, at 09:37 PM, Daniel Holth wrote: > See how trivial it would be to put the delegated sdist generator into the > build-backend within the confines of the current PEP? I agree that delegation within the backend is a reasonable answer to this. > The build-backend could point to a .py in the current directory that > implements itself with different tools, I think this was actually a question that someone (Nathaniel?) brought up: is the project source directory on sys.path when the backend is loaded? I would lean yes, so that it's possible to have a custom backend in the project tree, but I think whoever brought it up before was leaning no.
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