PEP 516: Rejected in favour of PEP 517

pep-0516.txt

@@ -6,10 +6,11 @@ Author: Robert Collins <rbtcollins@hp.com>,
         Nathaniel Smith <njs@pobox.com>
 BDFL-Delegate: Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan@gmail.com>
 Discussions-To: distutils-sig <distutils-sig@python.org>
-Status: Draft
+Status: Rejected
 Type: Standards Track
 Content-Type: text/x-rst
 Created: 26-Oct-2015
+Resolution: https://mail.python.org/pipermail/distutils-sig/2017-May/030517.html
 
 
 Abstract
@@ -45,6 +46,16 @@ thin JSON schema to describe bootstrap dependencies.
 Since Python sdists specified in PEP-0314 [#pep314] are also source trees, this
 PEP is updating the definition of sdists.
 
+
+PEP Rejection
+=============
+
+The CLI based approach proposed in this PEP has been rejected in favour of the
+Python API based approach proposed in PEP 517. The specific CLI used to
+communicate with build backends running as isolated subprocesses will be
+considered an implementation detail of front-end developer tool implementations.
+
+
 Motivation
 ==========