[Distutils] A possible refactor/streamlining of PEP 517

[Ralf Gommers]

On Mon, Jul 17, 2017 at 11:30 PM, Thomas Kluyver <thomas at kluyver.me.uk>
wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 17, 2017, at 01:07 PM, Paul Moore wrote:
> > If we have a consensus here that "build a sdist and build a wheel from
> > it" is an acceptable/viable main route for pip to generate wheels
> > (with "just ask the backend" as fallback) then I'm OK with not
> > bothering with an "ask the backend to build a wheel out of tree"
> > option. My recollection of the history was that there was some
> > resistance in the past to pip going down the "build via sdist" route,
> > but if that's now considered OK in this forum, then I'm fine with
> > assuming that either I was mistaken or things have changed.
>
> I think I was one of the people arguing against going via an sdist. The
> important point for me is that an sdist is not a requirement for
> installing from source -  it's ok by me if it tries building an sdist
> first and then falls back to building a wheel directly.
>

Same here, I had a preference for not going via sdist but am OK with the
current status of the PEP.

Cheers,
Ralf
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