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How can build backends avoid breaking users when they make backwards incompatible changes?

Given PEP 517 lots of projects now have their build backend defined like this: [build-system] requires = ["foo"] build-backend = "foo" This has lead to the following: When a new backend gets updated all users who bu…



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How can build backends avoid breaking users when they make backwards incompatible changes?

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Given PEP 517 lots of projects now have their build backend defined like this: [build-system] requires = ["foo"] build-backend = "foo" This has lead to the following: When a new backend gets updated all users who bu…



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How can build backends avoid breaking users when they make backwards incompatible changes?

Given PEP 517 lots of projects now have their build backend defined like this: [build-system] requires = ["foo"] build-backend = "foo" This has lead to the following: When a new backend gets updated all users who bu…

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      I’m not at all comfortable with the idea of framing this in terms of expectations on build backends, or what frontends can do to help “fix” problems caused by build backends making incompatible changes. The setuptools issue that triggered this discussion is very polarised, with people looking to assign blame (or at the very least, “responsibility”) and I don’t want to be part of that. Where I think build frontends fit in, is that they are intermediaries, enabling one set of users (developers) t...

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