Migrate to flit, pdm, or hatch

[patrick91]

Currently, our build step look like this:

python -m pip install build twine
python -m build
python -m twine check dist/*
python -m twine upload dist/*

I think we can migrate to a tool like flit, pdm or hatch, which won't require us to have a setup.py file (and we can migrate to pyproject.toml)

[ofek]

Examples of other Django projects migrating to Hatch:

• https://github.com/jazzband/django-debug-toolbar/blob/d04b9d1a666fd6427604c92f86f91380597eae14/pyproject.toml#L1-L5
• https://github.com/django-wiki/django-wiki/blob/1b03661c3fe7260b0eb82565cc3812b96de6b674/pyproject.toml#L1-L3

[hmpf]

I can do this, though I'd pick between flit or hatchling as I've never used PDM. I could also just convert to setuptools with pyproject.toml.

flit_core ignores .gitignore, it packs everything it finds in the directory at the time of build into the sdist tarball. hatchling does care about .gitignore.

With flit/hatchling, the build step can look identical to what you have.

I've moved all my stuff to one of them. I seem to start with flit then flip to hatchling if the list of ignored files grows large enough (otherwise I need to always git stash -u before building, though that's a good habit anyway).

[ofek]

Let me know if you would like assistance with reviews or otherwise (I maintain Hatch/Hatchling)!