[Distutils] Fwd: Re: PEP 517 again

[xoviat]

I'm handling the setuptools backend. I will make sure that it complies with
the clean directory.

On Aug 24, 2017 5:30 PM, "Paul Moore" <p.f.moore at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 24 August 2017 at 20:00, Thomas Kluyver <thomas at kluyver.me.uk> wrote:
> > So for the time being, I'd prefer to say that the build_wheel() hook
> should
> > not create or modify files in the source directory. Backends may keep
> their
> > own caches elsewhere to speed up repeated builds, but any more provisions
> > for developer use cases should be left for a future PEP. And developers
> can
> > invoke enscons/flit/... directly in the meantime.
>
> That means a PEP 517 compatible interface to setuptools is more
> complex, as it would *have* to specify a temporary build directory.
> And I'm not sure whether there are any *other* files it dumps in the
> source directory (egg info comes to mind, and PKG-INFO) and if so
> whether it's easy to get setuptools to place them elsewhere. That's
> fine, as far as I'm concerned, but it should be made explicit, IMO.
> I'm not yet sure who (if anyone) is proposing to write a PEP 517
> wrapper for setuptools (or if we'll need to special-case setuptools in
> pip for "legacy" support) but we should make it as easy as possible
> for anyone who does to get the details right, as it's likely to be a
> very widely used backend.
>
> It would be a lot easier to handle the edge cases here if there were
> someone writing a setuptools wrapper. Any takers? (I'm not sure I can
> make the time to do so, and I *am* sure that if I did, I don't have
> the time to support and maintain it going forward...)
>
> Paul
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