Re: PEP 517 - source dir and sys.path

Paul Ganssle <[email protected]> Thu, 7 Feb 2019 19:14:44 -0500

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On 1/29/19 7:46 AM, David Shawley wrote:

> I agree with pip's view that the presence of pyproject.toml means that
> you are
> *explicitly* announcing compliance with PEP-517.  The unexpected part
> was that
> the setuptools build-system shim was incomplete.  This will be addressed
> shortly if Paul Ganssle has anything to do with it (thanks Paul!).

Thanks for the shout out, and I really do appreciate the recognition,
but I would like to clarify that if anything I have /delayed/ getting
this fixed with my insistence that the semantics should be different
between setuptools.build_meta and setup.py. I think there are already
some useful features of this distinction, but it's certainly true that
if we had simply modified the path in the existing build backend, this
would be fixed now (with the release of the latest setuptools) instead
of necessitating a new pip release.

Anyway, even if I was right to insist on this distinction, I don't want
to take the credit for fixing this when a lot of people put in a lot of
effort discussing this and working out the right path forward, which is
very tough in packaging, where people want many new and useful features,
but they're also weary of all the churn in their build and deployment
system.

That said, I hope this doesn't sound like I'm complaining that you
complimented my work. I would hate to make you think that someone could
be bothered by the fact that you thanked an open source maintainer.

Best,
Paul

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