Poetry insists on optional property

[ashemedai]

• Poetry version: 1.5.1
• Python version: 3.11.4 (due to this bug a poetry debug info from the project directory won't work)
• OS version and name: Debian 12 on WSL2
• pyproject.toml: N/A

• [x] I am on the latest stable Poetry version, installed using a recommended method.
• [x] I have searched the issues of this repo and believe that this is not a duplicate.
• [x] I have consulted the FAQ and blog for any relevant entries or release notes.
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Issue

The PyPA Python Packaging User Guide states on declaring project metadata the following:

The only keys required to be statically defined are:

• name

The keys which are required but may be specified either statically or listed as dynamic are:

• version

All other keys are considered optional and may be specified statically, listed as dynamic, or left unspecified.

So only name and version are required to be defined in pyproject.toml. However, Poetry 1.5.1 currently gives me the following:

The Poetry configuration is invalid:
  - 'authors' is a required property

This is, of course, at odds with the PyPA specifications.

[Secrus]

We don't conform to metadata spec yet. See #3332

[ashemedai]

@Secrus D'oh, mentally made [tool.poetry] equivalent to the PEP621/PyPA spec's [project]. My bad.

[ghost]

We don't conform to metadata spec yet. See #3332

That doesn't mean you have to require the authors field, seems like a quite simple change to make. I could make a PR if desired.

It has always bothered me, because I have some private projects where I don't put any author for safety reasons. At least authors = [] works.

Though I suppose eventually this will become a non-issue when you adopt the official Python metadata spec.

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