Change build system tools?

BCDA-APS / apstools

various tools for use with Bluesky at the APS

https://bcda-aps.github.io/apstools/latest/

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Change build system tools? #964

Open prjemian opened 2 months ago

prjemian commented 2 months ago

Consider a change of the build system away from setuptools to use tools better designed for the PEP518 packaging system. Alternatives include:

meson
poetry

Originally posted by @prjemian in https://github.com/BCDA-APS/apstools/issues/961#issuecomment-2072479449

prjemian commented 2 months ago

Take note: Slowly, online help for Python packaging has begun to consider tools other than setup.py, but that is still the dominant advice at this time. With #914, this project moved away from use of setup.py.