[Distutils] PEP 517 again

[Chris Barker]

On Mon, Aug 28, 2017 at 12:50 PM, Paul Moore <p.f.moore at gmail.com> wrote:

> Me too. At the moment, I only expect two backends of any substance -
> your flit backend and xoviat's setuptools one. But I only know of one
> frontend, namely pip - and talk of projects like tox or twine acting
> as frontends never seems to get any traction.
>

If the build API is clean and supported enough, I can see conda using it.

just sayin'

NOTE: it wouldn't be conda per-se using it -- but individual conda recipes,
which generally call setuptools directly now.

-CHB


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