[Distutils] status check on PEP 517

[Daniel Holth]

Yes, the cwd strongly should be on sys.path, so many possibilities, and we
are used to that behavior in setup.py.

On Fri, Jul 28, 2017 at 4:59 PM Thomas Kluyver <thomas at kluyver.me.uk> wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 28, 2017, at 09:37 PM, Daniel Holth wrote:
>
> See how trivial it would be to put the delegated sdist generator into the
> build-backend within the confines of the current PEP?
>
>
> I agree that delegation within the backend is a reasonable answer to this.
>
> The build-backend could point to a .py in the current directory that
> implements itself with different tools,
>
>
> I think this was actually a question that someone (Nathaniel?) brought up:
> is the project source directory on sys.path when the backend is loaded? I
> would lean yes, so that it's possible to have a custom backend in the
> project tree, but I think whoever brought it up before was leaning no.
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