On Tue, 2019-11-26 at 21:30 +0800, Jason Zaman wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 25, 2019 at 06:38:47PM +0100, Michał Górny wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > TL;DR: should we depend on setuptools by default? Alternatively, should
> > we add distutils_enable_setuptools API to provide at least partial
> > validity checks.
On Tue, Nov 26, 2019 at 04:29:28PM +0100, Michał Górny wrote:
> On Tue, 2019-11-26 at 21:30 +0800, Jason Zaman wrote:
> > On Mon, Nov 25, 2019 at 06:38:47PM +0100, Michał Górny wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > TL;DR: should we depend on setuptools by default? Alternatively, should
> > > we add distut
On Tue, 2019-11-26 at 21:30 +0800, Jason Zaman wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 25, 2019 at 06:38:47PM +0100, Michał Górny wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > TL;DR: should we depend on setuptools by default? Alternatively, should
> > we add distutils_enable_setuptools API to provide at least partial
> > validity checks.
On Mon, Nov 25, 2019 at 06:38:47PM +0100, Michał Górny wrote:
> Hi,
>
> TL;DR: should we depend on setuptools by default? Alternatively, should
> we add distutils_enable_setuptools API to provide at least partial
> validity checks.
>
>
> Variant 1: automatic dependency on setuptools
> =
On Mon, 2019-11-25 at 20:39 +0200, Joonas Niilola wrote:
> Hey,
>
>
> On 11/25/19 7:38 PM, Michał Górny wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > TL;DR: should we depend on setuptools by default? Alternatively, should
> > we add distutils_enable_setuptools API to provide at least partial
> > validity checks.
> >
Hey,
On 11/25/19 7:38 PM, Michał Górny wrote:
> Hi,
>
> TL;DR: should we depend on setuptools by default? Alternatively, should
> we add distutils_enable_setuptools API to provide at least partial
> validity checks.
>
>
> The problem
> ===
> The vast majority of Python packages nowadays
Hi,
TL;DR: should we depend on setuptools by default? Alternatively, should
we add distutils_enable_setuptools API to provide at least partial
validity checks.
The problem
===
The vast majority of Python packages nowadays uses setuptools as their
build system. According to a cheap grep
