Hi Scott, Scott Kitterman <deb...@kitterman.com> writes:
> On May 2, 2020 4:17:20 AM UTC, Drew Parsons <dpars...@debian.org> wrote: >>> pybuild will want to support it >> >>Some discussion has started on the mailing list, >> >>https://lists.debian.org/debian-python/2020/04/msg00061.html > > As mentioned in the thread, there's a pybuild plugin for packages that use > flit to build based on pyproject.toml. It's in git, staged for the next > upload. The pep517 package can also build packages using pyproject.toml, but > it isn't, IMO, suitable for integration with pybuild because it's to heavy > weight. > I've been thinking of the approach of using something like Dephell to convert from any of these: https://dephell.readthedocs.io/cmd-deps-convert.html to setup.py. Assuming pyproject.toml becomes a widely adopted standard, the future benefit for this package would become for Debianising packages using less popular formats. I'm not familiar with pep517, but Dephell (ITP #962574) also seems too heavy weight for core usage like dh_python. Increasingly upstreams don't provide setup.py in their git repos, and PyPI releases often don't have everything that is required to run autopkgtests, and I was forced to choose the PyPI release with no autopkgtests. While searching for info on if pep517 could be used to convert to setup.py, I found pyproject2setuppy: https://blogs.gentoo.org/mgorny/2019/12/24/handling-pep-517-pyproject-toml-packages-in-gentoo/ Something like this strikes me as a something that might meet our needs, and it seems like a good opportunity for inter-distro collaboration! Regards, Nicholas
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