Not sure if you’re already aware of this, but there’s a similar discussion just 
a short while ago.

https://mail.python.org/mm3/archives/list/distutils-sig@python.org/thread/54QFJKANZOXY6NQZKEAPG346OL7MCQCV/#54QFJKANZOXY6NQZKEAPG346OL7MCQCV
 
<https://mail.python.org/mm3/archives/list/distutils-sig@python.org/thread/54QFJKANZOXY6NQZKEAPG346OL7MCQCV/#54QFJKANZOXY6NQZKEAPG346OL7MCQCV>

Basically the answer is yeah, sure, if someone makes the effort to standardise 
it. No-one ever did, but you can be the first.

TP


> On 24/9, 2018, at 23:30, Bernat Gabor <gaborjber...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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
>  
> <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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