[Distutils] PEP for specifying build dependencies

[Antoine Pitrou]

On Thu, 12 May 2016 00:20:32 +1000
Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> When I say "build system configuration" in the context of
> distutils/setuptools, I mean things like:
> 
> * MANIFEST.in
> * non-dependency related setup() arguments (packages, package_dir,
> py_modules, ext_modules, namespace_packages, entry_points,
> include_package_data, zip_safe, etc)
> * the Extension class and its parameters:
> https://docs.python.org/2/distutils/setupscript.html#describing-extension-modules
> 
> Those are the settings that actually tell the build system what to
> build and (in some cases) how to build it.

That's confusing :-) You should really call it "build configuration".

Regards

Antoine.