[Distutils] PBR/distutils2 with pep517 Support Was: Conditionless setup.py

[Daniel Holth]

Imo PBR is entirely a setuptools creature, without special concerns to
operate in pep517 land. If I were them I'd rewrite it to not require
setup.py and call that pbr2.

On Mon, Aug 28, 2017, 12:44 Chris Barker <chris.barker at noaa.gov> wrote:

> I've thought for ages that we could  transition to a more sane system by
> convention:
>
> "your setup.py, after being imported, will have a "setup_params" attribute
> that is a dict that can be passed to setup()."
>
> So tools that want metadata, etc. without actually running an install
> could do;
>
> import setup
>
> name = setup.setup_params['name']
> requirements = setup.setup_params['install_requires']
>
> etc...
>
> i.e -- it does need to run the code in setup.py, but it does NOT need to
> run setup install, or build, or whatever else.
>
>
> A typical simple setup.py with static meta-data would be:
>
> from setuptools import setup
>
> setup_params = {name:'sample',
>                 version:'1.2.0',
>                 description:'A sample Python project',
>                 url:'https://github.com/pypa/sampleproject',
>                 author:'The Python Packaging Authority',
>                 license:'MIT',
>                 packages:['the_package'],
>                 install_requires=['peppercorn'],
>                 ...
>                 }
>
> setup(**setup_params)
>
> But a setup.py could still have arbitrary code to build up the dict of
> parameters if need be.
>
> -CHB
>
>
>
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