Bug#1143885: ITP: pipcl -- Python packaging operations including PEP-517 support

Package: wnpp
Owner: Daniel Echeverri <[email protected]>
Severity: wishlist

* Package name    : pipcl
* Version         : 12
* Upstream Author : Julian Smith <[email protected]>
* URL or Web page : https://github.com/ArtifexSoftware/pipcl
* License         : AGPL-3
* Description     : Python packaging operations including PEP-517 support
* Programming Lang: Python

The pipcl package provides Python build backend operations (including PEP
517 support), for use by a setup.py script.

 - Designed to help build complex Python extension packages.
 - Can also be used to build simple pure-python packages.
 - Works on Linux, Windows, MacOS and OpenBSD.
 - Is a python module, not a framework, so does not impose any restrictions
on usage.
 - Can be used with any external build system by running commands, for
example with subprocess.run() or enhanced wrapper pipcl.run().

The intention is to allow a setup.py script to use the full power of Python
to do everything that is specific to the package,
without having to worry about generic Python packaging issues such wheel
formats etc

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Daniel Echeverri
Debian Developer
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