On Thu, Jun 28, 2018, at 8:25 AM, Paul Moore wrote: > I can see the practicality argument here. I don't think (correct me if > I'm wrong!) that anyone particularly anticipated when we were drafting > PEP 518 that the tools section would be used by anything other than > build tools - I know I hadn't anticipated that usage. In hindsight > it's an obvious thing to do, but it does mean that pyproject.toml is > more of a "general project configuration" file than purely a build > configuration one.
I agree - I didn't really think about this, but it is obvious in hindsight: we provide one obvious place to put configuration, and people put it there. :-) Maybe pip should be switching behaviour based on the presence of the [build-system] table in the toml file, rather than just the presence of pyproject.toml? (I'm only half following this discussion, so apologies if someone already suggested this). Thomas -- Distutils-SIG mailing list -- distutils-sig@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to distutils-sig-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mm3/mailman3/lists/distutils-sig.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/mm3/archives/list/distutils-sig@python.org/message/HZL5EBUEG2QCYB4FDQLTS2YTYP6QSP7B/
