Aug. 25, 2017
11:14 a.m.
On 2017-08-25 10:50:11 +0100 (+0100), Paul Moore wrote: [...]
once PEP 517 is implemented and as flit gains popularity, I fully expect more and more projects to use a static data structure for their metadata (flit.ini, specifically).
This has also been possible for years already using either PBR or distutils2. For example, hundreds of Python packages produced by the OpenStack community use a branchless boilerplate setup.py which declares a setup_requires on the pbr package, and then everything else goes into an INI-formatted setup.cfg file (except for install_requires which are drawn from requirements.txt instead). -- Jeremy Stanley