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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