[Numpy-discussion] Is the build-system section of pyproject.toml a maintained list of the build dependencies?

[Warren Weckesser]

On 1/8/20, Kevin Sheppard <kevin.k.sheppard at gmail.com> wrote:
> With recent versions of pip it will read the pyproject.toml file to get the
> dependencies, and then install these in an isolated environment to build
> the wheel, and then install the wheel.  The requires=[...] in the pyproject
> is not installed in the original environment, so that when run on NumPy,
> you would only end up with NumPy installed. Are you trying to get Cython
> installed after an install of NumPy?  If you want this then it needs to be
> listed in the setup as a dependency


Thanks Kevin.  I'm cleaning up the shell scripts that we use on
Travis-CI.  There were several redundant uses of `pip install`, some
of which were installing build requirements.  The pull request is
https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/15275, but I think the code can be
further simplified.

Does building with setup.py (instead of pip) use pyproject.toml?

Warren



>
> On Wed, Jan 8, 2020 at 4:38 PM Warren Weckesser
> <warren.weckesser at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> On 1/8/20, Warren Weckesser <warren.weckesser at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > I'm doing some work on the travis-ci scripts, and I'd like to remove
>> > some redundant calls of 'pip install'.  The scripts should get the
>> > build dependencies from a configuration file instead of having
>> > hard-coded pip commands.  Is pyproject.toml the appropriate file to
>> > use for this?  (Note: we also have test_requirements.txt, but as the
>> > name says, those are the dependencies for running the tests, not for
>> > building numpy.)
>> >
>>
>> Updating my question:  `pyproject.toml` lists numpy's build
>> dependencies in the `build_system` section of the file:
>>
>> [build-system]
>> # Minimum requirements for the build system to execute.
>> requires = [
>>     "setuptools",
>>     "wheel",
>>     "Cython>=0.29.14",  # Note: keep in sync with tools/cythonize.py
>> ]
>>
>> So the file serves the equivalent purpose of a `requirements.txt`
>> file.  Is there an option to pip that would allow something like
>>
>>     pip install -r pyproject.toml
>>
>> (with some other flag or option as needed) to install the build
>> requirements found in pyproject.toml?  In
>> https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/15275, I wrote a few lines of
>> Python to get the dependencies from pyproject.toml, but it seems like
>> that shouldn't be necessary.
>>
>> Warren
>>
>>
>> > Warren
>> >
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