Re: setuptools configuration in pyproject.toml

Yes! bdist_wheel is supposed to be how you install packages built with
setuptools on platforms without setuptools, to give you time to write its
replacement.

On Tue, Sep 25, 2018, 15:39 Thomas Kluyver <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 25, 2018, at 9:13 AM, Paul Moore wrote:
> > I personally don't see much advantage in the "dump everything in one
> > file" philosophy. so from a personal POV I'd prefer setuptools' config
> > to remain in setup.cfg, but if they have reasons for wanting to move,
> > the PEP allows them that option.
>
> I've come across quite a few people who want to avoid 'clutter' in the top
> level of the repository. By the time you've got packaging config, test
> config, CI config, editor config and so on, I can see where they're coming
> from. I think all this mass of different files can also be confusing to
> newcomers. So I try to avoid creating extra files where it's easy to do so.
>
> But in the case of setuptools, I wouldn't push for it to use
> pyproject.toml. It will have to continue supporting setup.py and setup.cfg
> forever, so all you could do is add yet another place that metadata might
> live, making it more complicated to understand.
>
> Of course, I'm biased, because if setuptools uses pyproject.toml, flit
> looks kind of redundant. ;-)
>
> Thomas
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