Oh I didn't see your reply, Gmail threw it in the spam folder.

I made a prototype here if anyone's interested:
https://github.com/ernstp/meta-setuptools-backport

//E

Den tis 28 feb. 2023 kl 17:14 skrev Ross Burton <[email protected]>:

> On 28 Feb 2023, at 15:00, Ernst Sjöstrand via lists.openembedded.org
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> > more and more Python projects are removing their setup.py and setup.cfg
> and switching to pyproject.toml. That unfortunately means you can't install
> those packages on Yocto Dunfell.
> >
> > Would it be reasonable to backport support for this to Dunfell? I see
> that the changes done for this support was actually kindof big, and as
> usual updating setuptools will probably cause some old package version to
> fail to install instead.
>
> The changes were kind of big, and I do worry that they’d break stuff that
> is expected to work.
>
> A “mixin” layer which just contains the new classes and recipes would be a
> much better approach for Dunfell.
>
> Ross
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