Inline: > Setuptools is pretty conservative, but I think there's still the caveat that > major versions may have backwards-incompatible changes in it. For example, > version 39.0 removed some symbols after a long deprecation period. Version 38 > started requiring ordered sequences for install_requires.
Hence the "more or less", I think these deprecations affect a very small percentage of installable packages. > Regarding the "there isn't currently a way for a package to specify > build-time compatibility with a specific version of setuptools", is it not > possible to do this with pyproject.toml? > > [build-system] > requires = ["setuptools>38.0", "wheel"] > > Doing it this way will work with pip wheel or pip install, though it all > depends on how good the PEP 518 support is for the tools you're using to > build your package. Thanks for catching this, I missed the fact that PEP 518 support is now considered operational in the latest versions of pip. -- 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/D7JTPUVFQT22NXYGZ5VQAN3VWHFL2VCC/
