On Mon, 24 Sep 2018 at 16:32, 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)? > > 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.
If you're talking about setuptools using the `[tool.setuptools]` table for its own configuration, then that's precisely what it's intended for. See https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0518/#tool-table. There's no question that setuptools is a "tool" in the sense used there. If you're talking about defining additional tables in the pyproject.toml format, then that would require a PEP (from PEP 518 "Below we list the tables that tools are expected to recognize/respect. Tables not specified in this PEP are reserved for future use by other PEPs"). Paul -- 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/BUQWTSOSJNZC7PQ4ZK2XKYYZ6EW4BUBT/
