[Distutils] Proposal: "Install and save"

[Daniel Holth]

Not yet. Someone should fix that 😎

On Sat, Jul 23, 2016, 11:37 Alex Grönholm <alex.gronholm at nextday.fi> wrote:

> pip doesn't yet support pyproject.toml does it?
>
>
> 23.07.2016, 17:43, Daniel Holth kirjoitti:
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> Here is my attempt. The SConstruct (like a Makefile) builds the extension.
> The .toml file gives the static metadata. No need to put the two in the
> same file.
>
> https://bitbucket.org/dholth/cryptacular/src/tip/SConstruct
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> https://bitbucket.org/dholth/cryptacular/src/tip/pyproject.toml
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> On Sat, Jul 23, 2016 at 10:11 AM Alex Grönholm <alex.gronholm at nextday.fi>
> wrote:
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>> 23.07.2016, 17:04, Thomas Kluyver kirjoitti:
>> > On Sat, Jul 23, 2016, at 02:32 PM, Alex Grönholm wrote:
>> >> I'm -1 on this because requirements.txt is not really the standard way
>> >> to list dependencies.
>> >> In the Python world, setup.py is the equivalent of Node's package.json.
>> >> But as it is
>> >> Python code, it cannot so easily be programmatically modified.
>> > Packaging based on declarative metadata:
>> > http://flit.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
>> > </blowing_own_trumpet>
>> >
>> > We have a bit of a divide. Specifying dependencies in setup.py (or
>> > flit.ini, or upcoming pyproject.toml) is the standard for library and
>> > tool packages that are intended to be published on PyPI and installed
>> > with pip. requirements.txt is generally used for applications which will
>> > be distributed or deployed by other means.
>> >
>> > As I understand it, in the Javascript world package.json is used in both
>> > cases. Is that something Python should try to emulate? Is it hard to
>> > achieve given the limitations of setup.py that you pointed out?
>> This topic has been beaten to death. There is no way to cram the
>> complexities of C extension compilation setup into purely declarative
>> metadata. Distutils2 tried and failed. Just look at the setup.py files
>> of some popular projects and imagine all that logic expressed in
>> declarative metadata.
>> > Thomas
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