Daniele Nicolodi

I haven't found this documented any better than here https://peps.python.org/pep-0517/#config-settings where is only very vaguely defined. But this works with `build`: ``` python3 -m build -w -n . -Csetup-args=-Doptimization=3 -Csetup-args=-Ddebug=true...

https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson-python/issues/59#issuecomment-1327142388

Thanks for the investigative work @eli-schwartz While considering the issue of determining whether linking to libpython is required, it may be worth checking if we have all the pieces required...

I tried to get some attention to the Python side of the issue https://discuss.python.org/t/building-extensions-modules-in-a-post-distutils-world/23938

@eli-schwartz Things are moving on the Python side. Now that we have some attention from the Python developers, is there anything else other than the two PRs you already opened...

My understanding is that there is no CPython core developer with the interest and the knowledge to get the required information into a consistent `sysconfig` API. The only way to...

The release date for Python 3.12 is approaching. Having this merged and have a Meson release before then would be great. @eli-schwartz I can push this through, if you like.

@eli-schwartz You mentioned having a rebase of this on master. Can you please push it? I would like to test it in https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson-python/pull/492 instead of using my own rebase. Thanks

@eli-schwartz It took you less than one hour to close my PR with a rebase of this work. You said that you already have the rebases commits and that if...

Thanks @eli-schwartz. Is avoiding loading `distutils` from `setuptools` done in excess of caution or did you find any instance in which that is actually problematic? I'm not aware of any...