Re: setuptools configuration in pyproject.toml

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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