You could probably implement this outside of setuptools as an extension.
Clients would add a load-toml line to setup.py. Do build requirements work
yet?
One obstacle might be reconciling the all-strings nature of .cfg with typed
toml.
On Mon, Sep 24, 2018, 12:06 RonnyPfannschmidt <
opensou...@ronnypfannschmidt.de> wrote:
> I believe contributions in the directions would be welcome,
> for now having something like tool.setuptools.{metadata,options,command.*}
> might be interesting to grow and experiment with
>
> but whats really missing is a setuptools conributor with more than just
> thinly stretched time.
>
> -- Ronny
> Am 24.09.18 um 17:30 schrieb Bernat Gabor:
>
> I'm aware this might be a controversial subject, so let's have the initial
> discussion about it here first for full disclosure and see what people
> think about it. Should setuptools support pyproject.toml as configuration
> source or not (alternative to setup.cfg which it already does -
> https://setuptools.readthedocs.io/en/latest/setuptools.html#configuring-setup-using-setup-cfg-files)?
>
>
> The main benefit of having this would be to decrease configuration files
> and have build dependencies and other types of dependencies in one
> location. Furthermore many other packaging projects (flit, poetry) already
> do define their dependencies inside pyproject.toml; so would create one
> unified location where to look for such in the future.
>
> The counter-argument is that "a big part of pyproject.toml was keeping
> that file clean" and would furthermore increase the size of that file down
> the line.
>
> So what do people think? Should we encourage or discourage to have a
> single python project file?
>
> I'm personally supporting build/code quality tools supporting
> pyproject.toml as their main configuration file.
>
> Thanks
>
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