In the pep it's stated tools can use the tool section https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0518/#id28 and at no point says build tools only. So I don't think at all strange that towncrier uses it. It follows the words of the pep quite rigourously.
On Thu, Jun 28, 2018, 18:40 Thomas Kluyver <tho...@kluyver.me.uk> wrote: > On Thu, Jun 28, 2018, at 6:27 PM, Brett Cannon wrote: > > The file was originally meant to target building wheels for libraries. It > just happens that folks have pushed that out to include apps as well. So if > the purpose of the file expands to include apps as well then that changes > what the PEP should require to be in the file. > > > It even expanded to include tools not directly related to packaging at all > - towncrier was given as an example, and that's a developer tool for > producing release notes. I guess we implicitly invited this generalisation > by calling it 'pyproject.toml' rather than anything explicitly tied to > building or packaging. > > In any case, I think it's too late to say such tools shouldn't use it, and > as Nathaniel pointed out, it's pretty surprising that using a tool like > towncrier would suddenly change how pip deals with your package. So I think > the best option is to say that the presence or absence of pyproject.toml is > not significant for build frontends - rather it's the presence of > build-system information in that file that matters. > > Thomas > -- > Distutils-SIG mailing list -- distutils-sig@python.org > To unsubscribe send an email to distutils-sig-le...@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mm3/mailman3/lists/distutils-sig.python.org/ > Message archived at > https://mail.python.org/mm3/archives/list/distutils-sig@python.org/message/CB65HN6QPPFAVTNGPWYMRKOEA52JQXXQ/ >
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