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The replacement for RoboFab
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add build-backend to pyproject.toml #648

Open Alessandro-Barbieri opened 2 years ago

Alessandro-Barbieri commented 2 years ago

Could you add add build-backend to pyproject.toml?

benkiel commented 2 years ago

More detail (why do you want this, what will it add, etc) and possibly a PR?

alerque commented 2 years ago

I believe it's required for PEP 517 tooling and would avoid downstream packagers from having to hack in the info manually.

Alessandro-Barbieri commented 2 years ago

I need it to move the ebuild of fontparts in the gentoo overlay ::guru to use PEP517 see https://projects.gentoo.org/python/guide/distutils.html#the-pep-517-and-legacy-modes

benkiel commented 2 years ago

Got it. Read that doc, very helpful: do you know which build-background we should be using? Ok if not, I'll sort it out if not.

justvanrossum commented 2 years ago

Probably setuptools, as that's what setup.py uses.

benkiel commented 2 years ago

@justvanrossum that's my guess to. On figuring it out as we do use setuptools_scm which has wrinkles it seems.

justvanrossum commented 2 years ago

Perhaps go pyproject.toml all the way, and only leave a stub setup.py. I'm doing that with a new project and seems to work ok, including setuptools_scm.

justvanrossum commented 2 years ago

My build-system section looks like this:

[build-system]
requires = ["setuptools", "setuptools-scm[toml]"]
build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"