[Distutils] Towards a simple and standard sdist format that isn't intertwined with distutils

[Thomas Kluyver]

On 12 October 2015 at 11:01, Robert Collins <robertc at robertcollins.net>
wrote:

> Python packaging config in $root/pypa.yaml
>
> Defined keys:
> ----
> ...
> build-tool:
>   # basic command that will spit a hunk of json back to the caller
> defining the
>   # commands to use with the build tool.
> ----
>
> Build tool output json (in yaml format for ease of reading):
>

I would be quite happy with something along the lines of this proposal,
though I'd bikeshed about some of the details. I like the idea of the
source tree having a single reference to the build tool, and the build tool
describing itself to pip. I'd probably use references to Python
functions/modules rather than specifying shell-style commands, though; it
seems like there's less to go wrong that way.

Thomas
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