Re: [Distutils] PEP for specifying build dependencies

2016-05-14 Thread Chris Barker - NOAA Federal
> When the upstream installation process is instead broken up into > "build a binary artifact" and "install a binary artifact", that brings > a few benefits: Great -- thanks for the detailed explanation. Sounds like a good plan, then. -CHB ___ Distutils

Re: [Distutils] comparison of configuration languages

2016-05-14 Thread Ionel Cristian Mărieș
On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 9:22 PM, Brett Cannon wrote: > No need to think; the decision is made and it's TOML. I know Chris doesn't > mean to stir up trouble, but at this point if someone wants to propose > something other than TOML they are going to have to write their own PEP. ​Not asking for a

Re: [Distutils] comparison of configuration languages

2016-05-14 Thread Lele Gaifax
Chris Barker writes: > Oh, and why not "JSON with comments and trailing commas" - it would be well > defined and easy to implement. And mostly done, even: https://bitbucket.org/intellimath/pyaxon ciao, lele. -- nickname: Lele Gaifax | Quando vivrò di quello che ho pensato ieri real: Emanuele G

[Distutils] build system requirements PEP, 3rd draft

2016-05-14 Thread Brett Cannon
Biggest changes since the initial draft: 1. No more semantics-version 2. No more [package] table 3. Settled on [build-system] as the table name 4. The "requires" key is required if [build-system] is defined 5. Changed the title and clarified that this is all about the minimum req

Re: [Distutils] PEP for specifying build dependencies

2016-05-14 Thread Nick Coghlan
On 14 May 2016 at 06:31, Chris Barker wrote: > On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 1:09 PM, Nathaniel Smith wrote: >> >> But, the plan *is* to make wheels the standard way to build packages -- >> that will be in the next pep :-). I'm not sure I'd call it "lock down", >> because there's nothing that will stop