layday

Removing all the `egg-info` entries from the list was oddly satisfying.

build builds packages in a venv of its own for isolation; venv inheritance is not a thing, so it's not clear how we would (or should) support this. For your...

You might have to explain in a bit more depth 😛

I dunno, I personally don't want to start adding options related to package retrieval; we might wanna look at standardising [package index metadata](https://discuss.python.org/t/adding-a-global-config-to-specify-package-indexes/8599/34) more seriously. In the meantime, I *suppose*...

> arguably [the pip call](https://github.com/pypa/build/blob/a92fbf938cd9d7f32dc357dc303edb4316a8cee3/src/build/env.py#L200-L209) should even supply `--isolated` to explicitly disable pip configurations Is this new? It sounds like something we should be using. I can't find any mention...

I assume it is/was to allow the API to rapidly evolve but development has slowed down over the past several months. It'd still be nice to resolve #361 and a...

How about: > build is a standards-based tool for generating Python package distributions. If you have a setuptools project and would like to start using build, create a pyproject.toml with:...

I have some concerns, in decreasing order of abstraction: 1. I'm not sure if the quoted requirement from PEP 517 should (or can) apply to build. Firstly, the name of...

The code doesn't check for cycles. It checks whether something else depends on the project under build, specifically. The PEP says that the build dependency graph must be acyclic. It's...

We should not remove setup.py at least not before installer has a CLI.