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# Mission Statement

In the Python ecosystem, the build system tools and the package management are very intertwined. While it might be useful for user to be able to access all this capabilities in a single project (such as pip), there are several use cases where this is not desirable. The main being custom environments (outside PyPI) or situations where the user does its own package management, such as Linux distributions.

This project aims to fit the “building packages hole” for such use-cases in PEP 517/PEP 518 workflows.

As it is intended to be used by users that do their own package management, we will try to keep dependencies to a minimum, in order to try make bootstrapping easier.